:51:02
Work has been progressing
steadily and well since you left.
:51:05
I've completed five or six
pieces to sell in New York
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and am now working very hard
to get ahead so we can fish.
:51:13
I love the sea and would
not be anywhere else.
:51:17
She's my home, my religion.
:51:20
Perhaps, correctly,
I should say that she is
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what we have instead
of religion or God.
:51:26
She creates life, and she ends it.
:51:30
She has beauty and great mystery.
:51:34
And she is eternal.
:51:38
This island is a lovely place.
:51:41
But the house is empty.
:51:43
I think I know almost all there is
to know about living alone.
:51:47
And I have known what it is
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to live with someone who you love
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and who loves you.
:51:55
I've always loved you boys.
:51:57
But I've never before realized how
bad it is that I do not live with you.
:52:22
I feel isolated.
:52:25
I keep remembering how happy
I became when you were all here.
:52:32
You moved into a part of me that,
when you moved out, became empty.
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And it's been bad for a long time.
:52:40
When you were here,
we experienced happiness.
:52:44
"Now in the night, I'm lonely for it.
:52:46
But I know the loneliness
is only a stage
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on the way until you all come back."
:52:50
on the way until you all come back."
:52:54
All my love, your father.