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WRITING Mark Chew WRITING Mark Chew

Bearings

You kept your star charts, your local tides, your moon phases, your dawns and dusks in your mind. You tracked stuff half in your head, half in your hands, half in your heart, half in your ass, and half in pages of your notebook or in scribbled margins of reference books.

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