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When she was a toddler, I showed my niece Leslie the Atlantic Ocean. I can’t recall if she’d never seen it before, which seems unlikely, or if she’d just never seen it at an age when she could understand and comment on it.
But I remember clearly that we were in Hilton Head, S.C., for a family vacation, and I stole her just minutes after she and her parents arrived at our big rental house so that I could carry her to the beach.