He was an old man who fished alone in a skiffin the Gulf Stream and he had gone eighty-four days now without taking a fish. In the first forty days a boy had been with him. But after forty days without a fish, the boy's parents had told him that he was salao, which is Spanish for The Nino.
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Foxglove -- it all ends in tears anyway...,
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