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“My room was in one of those turrets and at night I could hear the sea and the faint rustle of eelgrass in the soft wind. The weather was perfect that summer. No storms. Blue skies and just the right amount of wind every day. The sailors were in heaven.”

“In my day you got married and spent one holiday with one set of in-laws and another with the others. None of this bonding business.”