'Goodbye Mary-Lou.'

Chapter 27

Nov 05, 2023

∙ Paid

Top left. 2 small narrow boats moored stern to the lagoon side with jungle across the wide lagoon in the distance and storm clouds overhead. Top middle - a Great Green Macaw in flight above beach almond leaves. Top right - From a low angle looking across a brown lagoon with jungle down to the water's edge on the right and a red kayak with a kayaker paddling on the left. Bottom left - large lagoon narrows to a jungle with jungle on either side. Bottom right a large bird with neck extended and wings held out either side sitting in a small patch of jungle with thick jungle vegetation behind it — Goodbye Mary-Lou & thanks for the memories <3

Two days after our track survey, Mary-Lou left. I’d felt a pit opening up inside when I thought of her leaving because, although I’d only known her two weeks, we’d become good friends. We shared our struggles, our joy in our children, and our lives at home over long afternoons and evenings when it was just the two of us in the house drinking tea. We wer…

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