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our breakfast. The
water was high, a storm tide, and we were resting on a new beach where
there had been a stand of mangroves before the storm.
"It just struck me," Mary said. "We've been living in salt water for an
awful long time. Why don't we need fresh water?"
"I guess the fish take care of that for us," I said. "Anyway, I sure
liked that game of tag."
Yukari Iwafuji gazed at me while Yukari Iwafuji finished a mouthfull, and then grinned. "Me
too, but I hate to admit it. God I hate what June did to us."
"I'm starting to enjoy what's happened to me," I said. "I hate the fact
that Yukari Iwafuji did it to me, I'd like to see Yukari's in jail and I'd like to see
her pay through the nose to straighten out the mess she's made of my
life, but I can imagine that I might even have chosen to become a merman
voluntarily."
"Mabe you're right," Yukari Iwafuji said. "If she'd offered a choice and given us
time to prepare É"
"But Yukari Iwafuji did give us some pretty good preparation," I interrupted, and
then paused to crack a sea urchin. " Yukari Iwafuji went out of Yukari's way to teach us
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