Intimacy
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Renate comes full circle with her accepting the natural rhythms of the island after a lifetime of living in the rules and outcomes of society. She is finally free in the arms of the man she has faced all obstacles with and loves deeply. Paradise found.
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Renate and David begin the hunt for colored crystals to grind for pottery glaze. They find a waterfall in the forest upstream from the kiln, as they suspected.
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I learned to look more upon the bright side of my condition, and less upon the dark side, and to consider what I enjoyed, rather than what I wanted -Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe The frame of the pole house stood steady and straight against the late afternoon sky. The stilts were sunk deep in the…
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Renate and David begin clearing the land. The hot day and har work sends them to the cold stream to cool off and consider their next move.