The beach house in the early morning has a kind of silence that is difficult to describe to anyone who has never stood alone by the Atlantic before sunrise, because it is not actually silent. There is always the water. That sound is constant enough that after a few minutes, your ears stop treating it as noise and begin treating it as weather inside the body. It comes in, pulls back, breaks, gathers itself again. It is never hurried, never apologetic, never interested in whether you have slept. There are…
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