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“After breakfast they go for a walk, down to Higgs Beach and out to the pier, then along the shore. They’ve ambled like this since Jamie was two, on Connecticut, Cape Cod and Long Island seashores. Ginny holds hands with Lyle, to include him as she reminisces about her boys rowing their dinghies back and forth in front of the Cantipauk house, about eels in the eel grass, gobby-gunk seaweed fights and walks on the mudflats, a pathless world that appeared and vanished twice a day. There the tide ruled their lives in summer, with fiddler crabs and herons in the marsh, strutting gulls on the cobbled shore and halyards clacking on windy nights. On Cape Cod the fogs were so thick that bodies disappeared only thirty feet away. On Long Island the long blue beach stretched all the way to Montauk. The ocean here evokes the oceans there.”
― John Thorndike, The Passionate Sister