Sam continued reading.
I wish I could be sitting beside you right now. I really do.
The excitement they had felt only minutes earlier disappeared.
Joseph explained that he had never forgotten their agreement. For forty years, May 30 had remained circled in the back of his mind.
He had built a life in Europe, married, raised two children and eventually became a grandfather.
But three years earlier, Joseph had received news that changed everything.
His health was failing.
Doctors told him there was a chance he might not live long enough to return to California for their reunion.
So Joseph made a decision.
While visiting the United States the previous year, he secretly traveled back to the beach.
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