When my dad called to invite my 12-year-old brother and me to his wedding, I thought the worst part would be watching him marry the woman who destroyed our family.

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Out on the water, nobody lies. Not for long, anyway. You sweat, you bleed, you stink together—and if something’s off, the sea finds a way to surface it. We’d been

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