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96 Robert and Noah Noah and Robert are out in a boat, on some little river near Madison, high summer, Noah just a boy. They see a house. They need drinking water. Robert grounds the boat. They walk up to the place. There are four baked apples cooling on the kitchen window ledge, like in a fairtytale, like Huck Finn. Robert takes two. They go quickly back to the boat. They won’t miss them. (says Robert then) But Dad, those apples aren’t ours! (says Noah then) He was teaching me to be a pirate. (says Noah now) That particular house in rural Madison, Minnesota, may never have experienced crime before or since Robert’s spontaneous apple raid. Robert Bly tells me this incident on the phone, May 29, 2011. Noah has been visiting with his fiancée earlier in the day. They walked around the house holding hands. ...

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