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Occasionally, if I part from my spouse for a moment, I can’t find her where I left her. After I used a motel restroom late afternoon in coastal Ogunquit, Maine, Marie and I were to stroll along the 3-mile marginal way shorefront walk located about a half mile from the motel. But I couldn’t see my elusive wife anywhere. Figuring that she might have gone to a boutique just across the street, I scoured the store. No Marie. Perhaps she had already begun to head toward the boardwalk, so I trudged down the fairly steep main drag to the oceanfront. No Marie in sight.
I initially didn’t phone her because I thought that she would likely be taking pictures on her cell at the same time. But when I did call, I got through. Marie answered and said that she was at the bottom of the hill. Well, that’s exactly where I was. I looked in all directions. No Marie. Then she said that she had been all this time sitting on a bench on that hill, the one right next to the motel with the bathroom facilities. I was still puzzled. That so-called hill to me was no more than an incline, and I hadn’t noticed any nearby bench, let alone my wife sitting on one. In any case, I retraced my steps to the boutique, peered across the street and saw Marie waving to me from her perch on the bench.
Now that we were finally together, we immensely enjoyed the promenade, especially the promontories. One ridged stack of rocks resembled slices of shale, some huge, some almost miniaturized. Other rocks that jutted into the sea were flattened, conjoined without a visible seam. Another group of rocks were patterned like sound waves. The waves luxuriously swirled against the bottom ledges of the promontories. The double and triple decker wrap-around beach homes were stately, but they weren’t as stirring as the various craggy and chiseled cliffs.
The pre-twilight walk itself was equally romantic, but it was getting so chilly that we left just before sunset.
Of course, I wasn’t as uncomfortable as Marie was because I was well limbered up trying to locate her at her facsimile of a hill.
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