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"Mandatory, once he said he loved you"

"That’s the e feel"

"Who’s the bridesender confusion"

"Want to be best man?" I asked

"Sure, unless, when the ti Take soot toat the altar in a ht you’d et about six steps before she shouted, "Was that a proposal?"

"Yes!" I shouted

"Asshole!" she shouted

"Is that an acceptance?" I called back to her as I waded into the sea

"You don’t get off that easy You owe "

"So it was an acceptance?" I shouted

"Yes!"

With surf foa around my knees, I turned to look back at her as she stood there in the light of the Coleoddess of the surf, walked the earth, she was here this night, not in Wai under the na his tail back and forth, obviously looking forward to being a brides He trotted closer to the water, raised his head, sniffed the air, and gazed at the warship anchored outside thedifferent about the vessel, but soe evidently had drawn Orson’s attention--and concern

The waves, however, were too choice to resist Carpe dieht sea rolled in froa, from Tahiti, from Bora Bora, from the Marquesas, from a thousand sundrenched places where I will never walk, where high tropical skies burn a blue that I will never see, but all the light I need is here, with those I love, who shine