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swimming, snorkeling, diving, jumping, aloe and lotion, itching, loving, fighting, my parents bickering, jumping in the water to avoid the lightning during a storm on the boat, my stepfather afraid and telling horror stories, shark stories, laughing and shaking, wearing a mask to shield my eyes from the rain, feeding scallops to a three foot Remora a foot from my body, peanut the pup snuggling my neck in the water in the boat on land, birds with long necks, birds with big mouths, starfish and sea urchins, falling asleep driving, the way my parents house smells, when my mother says i cried and moaned if they killed animals when i was a child but became happy as a clam if they let me cut open the stomach revealing what it ate, being bent over in front of a cooler with a knife and covered in salty guts, catching cleaning and cooking my own food, my mothers interest in our genealogy but lack of interest in anyone outside of us, finding out we're czech/bohemian and the way she says it explains my rebelliousness, my natural inclination to rebel, my charming disobedience, pale summer skin,