You are perhaps wondering why I kept silent so long. I had a wife and three children, and I was a man of good name in my Cape Cod community, and could not risk their well being by the revelation of this incident, which would surely mark me as touched. And further, I did not wish to have this most wonderful of experiences tarnished and bandied about by unimaginative and callous cynics.
It has been many years since I have gone to Monomoy Point in an attempt to call back the humming fish from that loveliest lake on the island paradise, but I have never forgotten them or the place in which I first found them. All my recollections are as vivid and as real as the day when I first found myself in that strange and beautiful setting.
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