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“A woman and a man. I see her skirties. Pinned up, I bet.”
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Stephen identifies the two distant figures as a woman and a man and guesses that she has pinned up her skirts to work in the shallows. Their dog wanders over the shrinking sandbank as if searching for something lost in
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