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we who loved America part 3

We, who loved America (part 3) Before I could go back to places I loved  there were long years in the wilderness of hurts I lived in England near Liverpool and married lived in a new house and had a café It was all there, I should be happy. In a short time,  I lost my parents and siblings the emptiness I felt at the time was too much to bear, I drank heavily, and my marriage to a fine woman, ended in divorce the stability she had given me. I was back at sea again and by looking at  the unrestricted view of the great Pacific  ocean, my restless mind found a balance my ship docked in Nagasaki, I went ashore trying to find proof of the devastation that had occurred, but Nagasaki had rebuilt however, I found a cemetery where  Portuguese seam 1856, had died of the  plague as for the Japanese, I spoke to about the war and the American use of the atomic bomb  they were reluctant to talk about that when this interlude ended, I was finally back on a modern ship sailing between the USA  and the Caribbean waters   

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