The next few days were spent touring my new home town. We toured the harbor by boat and saw the Civil War era wreck of the Harvest Moon, a Yankee ship that was sunk by the locals with a homemade torpedo. The Swamp Fox tour, named for General Francis Marion, taught us all about Georgetown’s contributions to the Revolutionary War. My favorite part was the Ghost Walk guided by a woman dressed as a pirate lass.

     After the ghost walk, we stopped in at the Wild Fish for a drink. “You don’t have to, but if you ever want to talk about what happened, I’m always here to listen, Kiddo.”

     His words stunned me. No one ever wanted to talk about what happened to me, everyone had just tried their b...

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