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Becky Nash knows about rearing children on a fishing boat, watching them grow up to be fisherman and losing one to the sea that helped rear them.
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Can you imagine fishing and living on a small boat for months at a time, only coming to shore to refuel, pick up supplies and to do laundry? Then can you imagine doing it with your family, with pre-adolescent children? In this story Becky Nash helps you picture what it would be like.
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Can you imagine fishing and living on a small boat for months at a time, only coming to shore to refuel, pick up supplies and to do laundry? Then can you imagine doing it with your family, with pre-adolescent children? In this story Becky Nash helps you picture what it would be like.
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