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The Sea of a Thousand Colours

The Arabian Gulf in summer is not one colour but a thousand — turquoise near the shore, deep green further out, and in the places where the pearl oysters grow, a blue so clear you can see twenty feet down to the sandy floor. your child had grown up on this shore. The smell of saltwater and drying ropes was the smell of home. But your child had never dived — not truly dived, not to where the oysters were.