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6.04.2007

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Here are the beginning paragraphs:

"Randy liked to watch the slow brown waters of the Mississippi River. When he and Ava were first married, they had taken a trip to the Delta, to the place where the river flows into the Gulf of Mexico. It had been hot there, smelling of dead fish washed up on the shore. They walked along the beach together holding sticky hands. He had caught a puffer fish in a bucket and brought it to Ava. She had laughed, looking at its little face. The spaced apart eyes staring blankly as if it were all the same to him, Gulf or bucket.

They had made love that night, he still remembered it. She had tasted like salt, and he ran his mouth up her neck sucking it off her. She had seemed so beautiful to him then, full, like a ripe plum. He loved to take parts of her between his fingers and squeeze as if he were expecting juice. "