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+title: Father
+id: father
+genre: prose
+
+project:
+    title: "Buildings out of air: Paul in the Woods"
+    class: paul
+    order: 37
+    next:
+    - title: Paul
+      link: paul
+    - title: Fire
+      link: fire
+    prev:
+    - title: Toothpaste
+      link: toothpaste
+    - title: Early
+      link: early
+...
+
+"Is man the natural thing that makes unnatural things" he thought to himself as he looked out the kitchen window at the shed.
+He wondered who built the shed for the first time since he'd been going out there.
+"Mom who built the shed out back" he asked.
+"That was your father" she said.
+
+His father.
+Paul had never met him.
+His mother had said when he was a kid that his father was caught by a [riptide][] while swimming in the ocean.
+He hadn't noticed what was happening until the land was a thin line on the horizon.
+He became exhausted swimming back and drowned.
+His body was found a week later by the coroner's estimate.
+Paul never really believed this story because his mother's face was sad in the wrong way when she told it.
+
+She said he looked like his father but she also said all men look alike.
+Paul realized he'd been standing at the kitchen window for a long time looking out at the shed without realizing it.
+He went out to take an inventory of everything inside.
+
+"Where you going" asked his mother.
+"To the shed.
+I'll be back in a bit" he said.
+
+[riptide]: riptide_memory.html