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Episode 11: On the Mediterranean, Spring 2000



	START FROM THE BEGINNING: Episode 1 Siberia, Winter 1992 Episode 2 Kauai, Hawaii, Winter 1984 Episode 3 Osaka, Japan, Summer 2005 Episode 4 Monte Verde, Costa Rica, Summer 1989 Episode 5 Aspen, Colorado, Winter 1983 Episode 6 Mali, Fall 2001 Episode 7 Sydney, Australia, Spring 1991 Episode 8 Brisbane, Australia, Summer 2006 Episode 9 Antarctica, 1999 Episode 10 Belen, Nicaragua, Spring 1990 Episode 11 On the Mediterranean, Spring 2000 Episode 12 Buenos Aires, Argentina, Summer 2003 Episode 13 LAX, Summer 2003 Episode 14 Lagos, Nigeria, Spring 2000

Martin watched as Giselle slipped back into his bunk, then smiled as she moved in for a kiss. They kissed for about fifteen minutes before he decided that it was time. Having decided, he pulled away from her and was surprised to find he didn't have the words. Outside the waves slopped lazily against the side of the yacht. Feeling a strange dizziness, he had to clear his throat. "I wanted to ask you something."

"Yes?"

He took his eyes away from her eyes and moved his gaze to her hair stretched across the pillow like golden thread from a fairy tale. Uncharacteristically, he was afraid. To fill the silence, he said, "Whatever happened with your novel?"

"My novel?"

"Yes ... the novel." Inside, he was kicking and dying, both at once.

"I gave it up ages ago."

"Really?" He resisted the urge to punch himself in the face. "I thought it was getting somewhere."

"It just seemed to me that life was more a series of unrelated episodes rather than a narrative." She ran her palm over his shoulder. "But I've been thinking about it again. There are connections I didn't understand when I was younger, that I wasn't patient enough to see. Sometimes the stories come clear only much later. Like this thing with you and me. Us. I mean-"

Confidence rousing, he interrupted her with a kiss. It was now or never. "There's something else I wanted to ask."

He said, "Will you marry me?"

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