The Extra Life Jacket
By then the storm had come down in full.
The witnesses onshore lost sight of his boat in the rain and the chop.
That was the last moment anyone ever saw my husband and my sons alive — turning for home, in weather that had gone violent, after staying exactly as long as it took to be sure that an old man and a little boy they had never met were going to live.
There was no miracle in it.
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