“Like every event in life,” he said, this cruise may be divided into two parts: That which has been and that which is to be. We are about to turn our backs on the old year and turn our faces toward the new. During the past sixteen months we have drifted thirteen-hundred miles. Danger has confronted us each day. We have been squeezed and jammed, tossed and tumbled, nipped and pressed, until the ship’s hull would have burst had it not been as strong as the hearts it held within. We have pumped a leaking ship for a year and kept her habitable. And we are all still here. We face the future with
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