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"You look a little ill, city man," Peter said, taking up one of the oars.
"It's my first time in a boat," I confessed.
Jesus chuckled, and Andrew joined with him. And soon the others were laughing.
I didn't realize just then that in the short distance of shoreline between Heptapegon and Capernaum, I had begun th egreat journey I had waited for all my life.
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Learning so much. Love how she teaches.

I am setting this back on the shelf for now. Couldn't get into it.

I'll always be "reading" this timeless resource.

I'm in ch. 3, she's not even on the trail yet and I'm already wincing. Four of the first five paragraphs of this chapter start with "I." Fourteen consecutive sentences in a row begin with "There was..." as she described the backpack contents. Did she not use an editor?Fine if this is a stylistic tool to create the sense of her drudging step-after-step progress on the trail, but we're in her motel, for crying out loud