The sea which used to be clear blue was like mud water and it was as if it was boiling up and gaint waves were coimng on to the land.

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How can this be worse than sleeping on top of her parents' graves, saying Kaddish so many times the words ran together like nonsense, worse than sitting for days by the Pripiat River, watching for a little sock or Sophie's blue petticoat, sitting in the mud in only a nightgown and blanket, until the weather changed and Mariam came with the flier for America?

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He got to put on a blue suit and march with the 22nd New Jersey through the mud.

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Wearing white surgical gloves, he dug up a fistful of black mud and held it so that the sunlight caught the telltale blue-orange tint of petroleum.

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