Written on the Back of a Tide Table (Cal)

Nora. You will find this because you read everything twice.

I am no good at the out loud part, you have seen that. So here it is on paper, which is the only place I have ever been any good. I was on this island the whole time you were gone. I told myself I had stopped waiting. I had not stopped waiting. That is the whole message. I had nine years to write it and that is all there is.

Low tide is 6:14. Wear the boots, not the good ones.