"My son will forever travel through a moonless night with only the roar of wind for company.... A drowning man is not separated from the lust for air by a bridge of thoughtâ€”he is one with itâ€”and my son, conceived and grown in an ethanol bath, lives each day in the act of drowning. For him there is no shore."

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Source : The Broken Cord ch. 14 (1989)

Michael Dorris

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