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The old man was thin and gaunt with deep wrinkles in the back of his neck. The
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brown blotches of the benevolent skin cancer the sun brings from its reflection on the
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tropic sea were on his cheeks. The blotches ran well down the sides of his face and his
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hands had the deep-creased scars from handling heavy fish on the cords. But none of
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these scars were fresh. They were as old as erosions in a fishless desert.
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