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The way Charlie wriggled on his lap as she kissed Dan's ear reminded him of their very first time 10 years ago. He looked over her shoulder and saw 15 or 20 boys and girls on the beach. They were dragging big bags of what looked like seaweed and carrying wood and gathering rocks.

"Looks like a lobster bake," he said. "I think New Dan and Charlie could have a lot of fun there, too. Why don't we go down and have a look?" He kissed Charlie and playfully pulled the top of her bikini so he could see her nipples. "And I'm sure once they get a look at you we'll be very welcome."

Soon they were on their way, holding hands in the late-afternoon sun. As they approached the group, Dan heard a girl laugh. She was a friendly looking blonde in a string bikini top and cut-offs.

"So after all these years you can't remember how to do a lobster bake without your brother?" she giggled. "So we have about 20 lobsters and what? We send them back into the ocean? 'Go free, little lobsters! We can't cook you!'" She started to laugh, but it was a friendly laugh, not worried at all.

Dan looked around. They had rocks, wood, seaweed, and he saw a long rake and a tarp. Clearly someone had remembered something about constructing the bake, but it was tricky.

"Can I help?" he asked the clearly frustrated young man who stared bleakly at the assemblage. The boy turned to him with the look of someone who'd just been plucked from a volcano.

"I wish you would," he said. "My brother used to do this all the time, but he graduated from the university and moved away. He taught me last summer, but I've forgotten how to start. I'm Clyde Hatton, by the way, and these are my friends. We've had this party a couple of times every summer for years; we're all friends from before high school, and I think they're beginning to want to think about dinner sometime tonight. We've got plenty, if you'd like to join us, and I'd be very grateful for the help. By the way, that big-mouthed girl is Katy, my girlfriend."

Dan introduced himself and Charlie, then surveyed the scene.

"I see you've dug the pit, now you arrange the rocks at the bottom, two-deep." A half-dozen boys started arranging them, reserving about a third. Then they built the fire in the center of

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