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We don't go to the ocean for anything as simple as happiness, do we? We go there to feel alive. Like life, the ocean holds chance and change, grief and terror and beauty. It promises mortality, not peace.

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Eileen Wilks
Age: 72
Born: 1952
Born: November 3
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Writer
Monahans
Texas
Life
Chance
Promises
Like
Happiness
Holds
Simple
Terror
Peace
Grief
Change
Ocean
Anything
Promise
Feel
Alive
Feels
Beauty
Mortality

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