“Keep that one,” a man’s voice said behind me. “The ugly ones usually have the best stories.”
Morning coffee became walks, and walks became dinners on the pier .
I turned and saw a silver-haired man with kind eyes, a crooked smile, and one knee wrapped in a black brace.
“Do you always give shell advice to strangers?” I asked.
“Only when they look dangerously undecided about souvenirs.”