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Once upon a time

parents, families, friends

stood on a windy pier

said tearful good-byes

held each other close

and then watched as their loved one

climbed aboard a ship and

sailed away.

From that day on

they knew only that

the adventurers would be

somewhere

out there

in a New World

making a new life

for themselves.

And that knowledge

had to be enough.

Most of them called it

Adventure.