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"Each time the water went out, I would see the man who rents motorbikes across the street. Everyday, he sits in the same place under a coconut palm. When the water would go down, he would go searching for a chair, pick it up and sit right back in the same place.
He was sitting there when the second monster wave hit.
As if that first big one hadn't been strong enough, and as if all the other smaller ones that flooded the buildings to several feet hadn't done enough damage, we were fated to get one more doozy - one that brought back all the terrible sounds of that first wave.
I saw it come in, and the motorbike man across the street had to have seen it, but he just sat there, as he always did, as if the motorbikes he rented were still there. He sat there, and I saw him, and the wave came, and when the wave left, he wasn't there anymore."
"Each time the water went out, I would see the man who rents motorbikes across the street. Everyday, he sits in the same place under a coconut palm. When the water would go down, he would go searching for a chair, pick it up and sit right back in the same place.
He was sitting there when the second monster wave hit.
As if that first big one hadn't been strong enough, and as if all the other smaller ones that flooded the buildings to several feet hadn't done enough damage, we were fated to get one more doozy - one that brought back all the terrible sounds of that first wave.
I saw it come in, and the motorbike man across the street had to have seen it, but he just sat there, as he always did, as if the motorbikes he rented were still there. He sat there, and I saw him, and the wave came, and when the wave left, he wasn't there anymore."
posted by Mark Williams at 9:44 am
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