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Ruth Park

In a still hot morning, the tide went out and didn't come back in. This was not a spectacular event. The sea did not roll up like a scroll, like the sky in Revelations. It quietly withdrew.

Ruth Park

Morning

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The author describes a calm morning when the ocean slowly receded and stayed away, without any dramatic or sudden movement. Instead of a powerful or frightening scene, the sea simply pulled back in a quiet, ordinary way.

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