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Not looking at her I said, "I ht sky, especially out over the ocean where there is no cohtness"

Keturah lay down besideup at the clouds overhead with real fascination

"What's it like up there?" She asked softly

"I'll tell you" I then started to explain all the created cosht I explained about the sun and the moon The planets in orbit and the stars further out I talked about a lot of things as I sought to fill the curiosity she had as one who had never seen the coranted

At soers had inched over closer and closer to mine and eventually I took her hand and held it as we talked back and forth for hours At so her hand

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Keturah's elboas tired and a little painful fronore both ail man beside her Her ht and all hts occurred to her of how different her lonely existence upon the waves was going to be because of what thisto her life and already had in so many ways

The best moments of her life had been when he had lain awake for hours as he described the wonders of the world above to her She'd never had such a companionableher the gift of his tiaze fell onto the curiously indented ring of flesh on his left hand and her eyes got wet again She'd cried quietly for more than an hour earlier, when she'd seen the absence of the ring on his finger

She wouldn't have minded at all if he'd kept it for she knehat it sy it meant so much more She'd learned from the one called Matt all about Eli's fanificance of his dead wife, she had only wanted to share as left And that would've been enough to be content with Never in her wildest dreams would she have ever expected a man like Eli to fully commit himself to someone like her, but that was just the kind of man that he was