Tide
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Last published Fri, Jul 28, 2017
Sometimes life hits you like a wave... Do you drown? Or do you swim?
Daniel Alonzo Estéves-Daviau is your typical high-school junior, with typical life problems.
"Typical" is, however, so general. Dan wouldn't call himself typical, or his problems typical either.
Life, it turns out, isn't as sunny as he thought.
Maybe there is no greener grass. Maybe there is no end to a dark, endless ocean. Maybe things don't get better...
Maybe it's because life continuously hits you with rough, viscous waves... like the tide.
Maybe the ocean is so dark that you can't see, so you can't swim, so you drown.
Or maybe not?
This is a mid-mid-life crisis.
Danny is having one.
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