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Usually when you're steering a boat, it's like steering a car – you aim yourself in the right direction and move the tiller a little this way or that way on keep on course. Occasionally a stronger puff of wind or a sudden wave pushes you off – like a bump in the road or a car that swings too far into your lane. But you correct. You get back on course. And you start again with the little movements. It's easy. Anyone can do it.
(After Gerry fell overboard and they set sail)
"Dad." I held my teeth tight. "I guess you forgot. Planning this whole trip, I would have thought you'd remember, but I guess you didn't." I looked at Dad again. He was watching the sail. "Dad," I said, "Gerry can't swim. Remember?
The present doesn't change the past. Is the fact that the past happened enough to make the present good? Is the past real? Was it real anymore?
I was letting myself come back to life and it wasn't good.
So we cooked the flounder and ate every single bite. It was huge, and we were stuffed. It was worse than Thanksgiving. I mean it was better.
Gerry breathed loudly and slowly. "Dylan," he said accusingly, "that was a sad story."
"Not it's not. It's a happy story. It's about a mom who loved her baby very much."
"But she's gone," Gerry said in a very little voice.
"That doesn't mean she loves you any less," Dylan said.
Ben," Dad snarled. He was tired. "Life jacket and safety harness. Always. When you're alone on deck at night, we'd never know if you fell off. You'd be left behind. We'd never find you."
"Doesn't sound so bad," I said.
