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26 SABINE HILDING
“You’ve saved many lives....” said his mother.
“And recovered quite a few too,” said the Seal.
“A courageous thing,” said his mother.
“Oh ma’am, I don’t even want to begin telling you.”
The old Navy Seal or Special Forces Diver or whatever he had been in a former life
looked frightening, but the woman trusted him. You could tell since she snuggled
closer. The man had one arm around her and held the beer can in his free hand.
Later, when the boy ran back to the cabin, still steaming from the hot spring, he
heard murmuring and low laughter from the two still in the pool.
That night, he lay on the dusty cot tucked in his sleeping bag inside the tiny cabin.
His mother lay on a cot close by, wrapped in the cocoon of her bag.