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We appreciated Alexandra Basin. I found myself more interested in my sunrise companion than in the view. “Say, why don’t we take a walk?”

“Do you have anywhere you’d rather be?”

“I don’t. This is where I saw you seven years ago, looking out at the waters all by yourself.”

“All by myself I was, til last Friday.” She leaned against me. “I’m glad you’re back, Gale Jones.”