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The Map of Small Disasters
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'Still going,' I said. We pushed through the storm and reached the star at last. The sky cleared and the waves dropped flat. In the calm water below, I saw the dark shape of a sunken rowboat on the sand. Grandma's old rowboat — the one she'd told me sank years ago.
We anchored and I dove down to the sunken rowboat. Tucked under the seat, sealed in a glass jar, was a note. I brought it up. Grandma's handwriting: 'I capsized here saving a drowning stranger. That stranger was your grandfather. Without this disaster, there is no you.'
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