Kindle Notes & Highlights
by
Mandy Loader
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March 25 - March 30, 2020
A slim young woman in her early twenties was lying alone down by the sea. She was beautiful, but her face was sad. Her long black hair fell over the book she was reading. From time to time she looked up from her book and along the beach.
It did not matter to her father that Max was kind. What mattered to her father was what a man said and what he did. Her father thought the most important thing for a man was to be patient, to be quiet, to say nothing, to be brave, to be able to feel pain without talking about it.
Max was loud, he was noisy, he did not think before he spoke, he was impatient – he was everything her father hated in a man. It did not matter to her father that Max was honest, generous and helpful.
The weather forecasters called the killer wind Hurricane Irene. And Hurricane Irene threw itself across
Name srorm is Hurricane Irene
the Atlantic, straight towards America. In front of it the hurricane pushed a huge wall of water, an eight meter high storm wave that would destroy anything in its way.
always wanted to fly, and he had always loved the wide open sky. As a small boy he loved watching the clouds during the day and looking at the stars at night.
He respected the fish he caught. He respected them because they were brave, they were clever, they were strong, and they fought hard. They fought hard, they fought long, and they never stopped fighting until they were out of the water and no hope was left.
Hiru had taken her to Tokyo a few times, but she didn't like the crowded narrow streets, the noise, the food, the long, boring evenings with her Japanese cousins. She always wanted to get back to Florida, to her friends, to the sea, to the free life she enjoyed in America. Hiru began to think that his beautiful daughter was like a fish, swimming free in the ocean.
Elaine sometimes looked at the older women working beside her, women in their forties and fifties. They joked and laughed like the young girls, but their faces were tired, their hair had gray in it, and their
Rick was a schoolteacher, twelve years older than she was and not very handsome. But his face was kind and he had a good job as Principal of the nearby school.
"Get the life raft now!"
