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Black Sea

The story opens at the airport arrival gate in the early morning hours. The narrator is waiting for a female friend returning home after three years of overseas study; although they have stayed in touch, they have not seen each other in a long time. Pacing back and forth, he wonders how to greet her and worries that time and distance may have changed them both. The opening centers on the reunion of old friends and the resurgence of unfamiliarity within a once-familiar relationship.

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