Miles from this beach, somewhere in the middle of that moving darkness, were men and women who lived their lives like Sarah’s father had, intermittently, two weeks on, two weeks off, napping on the couch or puttering in the house, yard, town for fourteen-day stretches, and just when the harder questions of living begged for answers, they were off again to the rigs, questions forgotten, decisions unmade. They were whisked away in helicopters to a place for which Sarah had no reference in her imagination. Not a trace there of family life, of children, no pictures or toys, no sentimental
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I loved this -- I grew up in South Louisiana, with and among those men, to include my grandfather. It also reminds me of my own military career. Spending 4, 6, 12 months at a time in far off places, basically living 2 lives, one home & one away.
Such a concise yet vivid description.
