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I don’t know how to tell him. ” “He’s going to finish on time?” The thesis deadline. “You still going to Taft’s lecture?” “I guess. Gil knows better than to ask more questions.

“Work?” Workwas the euphemism I used, avoiding the title that was such an embarrassment to me around my friends. In midsummer, when great sea animals were on the move, Oogruk's father-in-law, aidedby Shaktoolik, launched his umiak from the pebbled shore fronting the village ofPelek. There in the vast loneliness of the north, these creatures of the north preparedfor battle. And because she was now fifteen, with an intense interest in everything about her,she saw that things were not going w