Darryl Karrew of Narraganset, Rhode Island had the largest collection of ships in bottles in New England, having carried on his great grandfather's hobby. That is, until the great nor'easter of '87, which flooded his house and washed out the entire fleet. Turns out a good number of them were seaworthy; folks were finding them washed up on beaches up and down the Atlantic seaboard for the next ten years.

Some loud, angry days Rufus would have to hide from his brother. He sat in his treehouse until it got dark and gazed out at the world and imagined himself running away to all the far off places he could see.

What are you afraid of? It knows.

As Leonard Pimkin sealed up the cave, he hoped this reminder that something once lived on this desolate, forgotten world would be a small comfort to its discoverer.

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Mr. Garfield couldn’t help but notice Constance had worn the shoulderless gown this evening. She knew he would notice, even from across the theater, just as he knew she would notice the lavender corsage he wore, signaling she should make an excuse to slip away from her balcony box and meet him at his carriage just as the opening notes of Habanera began to play.

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Rosalia Ducharme's fatal allergy to flower pollen meant that, living in her hermetically-sealed room, smelling only the metallic tang of filtered air, this small golden replica of her mother's favorite cherry blossom tree was the only nature she would ever know.

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