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The boy who built boats

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5:09 AM Sun 20 Mar 2011 GMT
'Bob and Virgene’s boat Giashko, meaning Seagull, which they sailed to faraway places' .
There was a boy who wanted to build a boat. He came from a town near you or far away. He was eleven, and shy. He went to the local lumber yard to buy the timber. Feeling a little intimidated, he said he was going to build bookshelves for his mother. 'But the truth came out when they delivered the lumber,' he said the other day, a long time later. 'They said to my mother: ?So, your son?s going to build some bookshelves?? My mother said, ?Oh, no; he?s building a boat.? It was so embarrassing to me I hid ...


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