And in the lagoon at Tahiti six white wreaths lay all alone, washing in and out, in and out with the wavelets on the beach.

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The morning haze had burned off, and in the noon light the brackish water appeared deceptively lovely, its surface undisturbed except for a single Jet Ski carving a white wake whose exhausted wavelets lapped at the riprap at the side of the road.

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