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I almost stepped on him.
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"The kon-Tiki's motion was a little
different from what it usually was.

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We had become sensitive
to the log's rhythms.

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I thought of suction from the coast and
was always on deck and up the mast. "

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He was nervous.
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"Time passed. At dawn, just before 6,
Torstein came down from the masthead.

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He saw a line of small
palm-clad islands ahead. "

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I grew to love the forest. The cooing
of doves and the hum of dragonflies...

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...made it lonesome
and like everybody's dead.

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When the leaves rustled overhead...
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...it was like the spirits whispered
about the things that bothered them.

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One day while looking at some
vistas in Dad's stereopticon...

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-...it hit me that I'mjust a girl...
-Hi.

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... whose father was a sign painter,
who hadjust so many years to live.

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Sent a chill down my spine
and I thought...

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... where would I be this very moment
if kit had never met me?

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Or killed anybody?
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This very moment.
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If my mom had never met my dad.
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If she had never died.
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And what's the man
I'll marry gonna look like?


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