![]() ![]() Elaine is so choked up I don't have the heart to remind her that very morning she had called the woman a leech and a parasite, with such force that Amarandi had marched around the house singing both words. A few minutes before the dolphin comes, Epatia, the woman who had befriended Elaine hands her a giftĪnd a letter. Amarandi is happily eating strawberry ice-cream and playing with Joan who she has suddenly become very close to. My brother James has a coveted Flying Dolphin schedule that he is unwilling to part with so Andrea is furiously copying timetables for our trip to the island of Kea. When I eventually get to the bar to say my farewells, everyone is exchanging information. ![]() I go to spend the last two hours of Elaine's month with us reading by myself. She says she is pointing it out to be helpful. Nothing a little minor surgery won't cure. I thank her for pointing out my flaws to me and she responds that it is not a flaw Then, in the middle of a conversation about Andrea's cousin Kim getting together with Panayotis, the kefalo fisherman, on his cruise ship in the Caribbean, Elaine interrupts me to say, "You know you can have that tooth filed down." She is talking about one of my front teeth that is bigger than the other, and has been for the thirty years I have known her. Knowing that they are listening makes me more anxiousĪnd everything anybody says I take it the wrong way and get angry. One thing I do realize is that I am under the watchful eyes and ears of my brother and his girlfriend who are waiting for our arguing to begin. I'm feeling kind of anxious and I don't know if it's because I'm sad Elaine will be gone in less than two hours or because I had used three tablespoons of Nescafe in my coffee this morning. We go for our final meal together at Katina's. It's merely the second biggest fish she has seen here this summer. The fish are still tied to his boat and still breathing so I show Andrea. But, when we get to the dock he is nowhere in sight. The girls are on their way out the door so I carry Elaine's heavy bag and ask Andrea to bring my camera so I can photograph my future step-father-in-law with his big fish. I return to the house to hurry them so Elaine can catch a glimpse of the fish before they disappear into the Octopus families soup and bellies. On top of all his attributes he is also the best fisherman in Kalohori. The final proof that he is the man she had been looking for. "Did you see? Did you see what your friend Mister Crysanthos has done?" I wish Elaine was here. Tied to the boat are three more, one of them even bigger, perhaps twenty pounds and almost three feet long. I think maybe they are going for a cruise but when I walk over I realize that they are buying an enormous grouper that Crysanthos had caught When I get there The Octopus family is waddling over to Crysanthos' boat. Elaine asks me to take one of her bags to the dock. The Flying Dolphin that will take most of our gang away will be arriving at around two o'clock. It's noon as I am leaving the house when the girls come home from breakfast or some last minute shopping.
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