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July 5, 2005

Ted: Bali Hi

The sailor rowed ashore in his lifeboat, not knowing where he was. The woman who found him brought him to her father. Her father had spent enough time with the missionaries that he knew the sailor's language.

"Why are you here?" asked Pulu.

"Sin," replied Abrahms.

"Whose sin?"

"The trecherous crew who mutineed. My sin for failing the Crown."

"Do you wish to return, or stay? Perhaps marry?"

Abrahms looked to the woman who found him, clothed as Eve before the fall. He knew that staying would bring sin to paradise. He imagined the gallows waiting behind him, and decided.

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