For two hundred years, people have come to the old municipal pier for the same reasons they pretend are different. They arrive with fishing poles, wedding rings, vodka in coffee cups, divorce papers, tourist maps, unpaid taxes, secret lovers, spiritual confusion, gull attacks, and the unearned confidence that open water provides. They lean on the railings, stare into the horizon, and begin talking out loud because humans believe if no person answers, no one heard them. But someone did. T he pier heard everything.
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