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Good afternoon, and welcome
to Delrona Beach's...
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...annual Buccaneer Days.
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Earl. Earl!
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-Steve. I'll be right with you.
-I got those signatures.
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Just give me a minute.
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In the afternoon,
when school was out...
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...and the last one had left
with his dirty little snuffling nose...
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...instead of going home, I would go
down the hill to the spring...
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...where I could be quiet
and hate them.
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It would be quiet there then...
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...with the water bubbling up and away
and the sun slanting in the trees...
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...and the quiet smelling of damp
and rotting leaves and new earth.
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Especially in the early spring.
For it was worse then.
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I could remember my father used to say
that the reason for living...
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...was to get ready to stay dead
a good long time.
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And when I would have to look at them
day after day...
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...each with his and her
secret and selfish thought...
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...and blood strange to each other
and strange to mine.
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And to think that this
was the only way...