A story about two star-crossed lovers in Haiti. Suffering from the brutality of political disorder, they were separated: the man got on the boat to flee to somewhere else, and the woman stayed. They kept writing letters to each other (more like a diary) as what they promised even though with the distance of sea and eventually death.
- the young man is going to flee; missing his girl
- a political turmoil in Haiti ~> school was closed by the army; burnt campaign posters and old buttons; destroyed music tapes
- a pregnant girl, older people, no children, many Protestants on the boat; hopeless future of their country
- a group of students demonstrating for "the radio six" got shot; some bodies were turned over; promise to keep writing "when we see each other again, it will seem like we lost no time
- first day at sea: everyone vomiting, sunburn, help revive an old lady fainted from sunstroke, singing makes him cry, tired of the smell, stink, a crack at the bottom of the boat ~> in panic
- American factories are closed; papa yelled at her about the tapes, pushed her against the wall, spat in her face, kept slapping her really hard; wish could kill him
- getting more dark; keep dreaming
- papa sleep separate with his daughter ~> avoid forced to have sex; no gasoline
- telling stories; Bahamas treat Haitians like dogs even through the same African fathers
- madan roger's houses, looking for her son
- Celianne, child stubborn; three cracks
- rumor: old president is coming back; drive to the market
- girl baby, Swiss; has to throw out things: two gourdes; parents?
- people went to the airport were arrested, shot; told papa I love you
- baby not cry; Celianne story: soldiers burst into house forced her brother to intimate with mother, raped her, accused bother for moral crime
- papa paid all the money to save her life
- people want to throw the baby; writing "my will"
mountains pushing her farther from him
- she threw the baby overboard and jumped; forced to throw the notebook, wrote the man full name; "I know that my memory of you will live even there as I too become a child of the sea"
- black butterfly, radio: another boat sank off
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