Rosetta and David came over, with their dog Hunter and bearing corn and delicious strawberries, childhood-memory quality. Amy cooked eggplant parmesan for the vegetarian Rosetta, which it turns out she does not like, but all was well. Nick was at a soccer camp, Anna in Washington D.C. The weather was sunny all day, the beach was packed solid, thinning out as we walked to the other end.

Nell and Emily McGregor arrived from Los Angeles around 9:00 p.m., finding the drive across the mountain hair-raising.

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