water splashes down my face onto the backs of my hands and slides off onto his jeans . now you 're leaving town for one you hate ! most of all he missed his family . he grinned as he put the receiver down . you have to change yourself completely . he was looking at me with the most worried stare . when you walk on earth for the first time , you 're going to walk and talk just like them . '' a woman wearing a life jacket crawled up on the beach , red and sunburned . 