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After the party, we head out to stay overnight with my friends Sheena and Vanita, and their sons Balan and Ashwyn, three hours away, near the camp you are dreading. You become quieter as we drive.
I gaze out the window at the trees and fields of rural southern Ontario, so different from the landscape on the island of Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, or Unama’ki in the language of the original Mi’kmaq inhabitants, where we have lived for the past ten years. We are in Hamilton, Ontario, temporarily for the first year of my Ph.D. In Nova Scotia, we often drive along rocky coastlines, blue-gray water flowing into eternity. My mind flashes back to Green Cove, my favourite place on the island, an outcropping of sparkling, rose-tinged boulders extending into the Atlantic Ocean. I inhale and can smell the ocean and solitude.
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