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san nicola intercessions The Captain insisted he was a modern man— not weakened by all the superstitions of his fellow Italians down in Bari. Sure, he had grown up learning, and reading, and wishing on the saints and the stars of the sailors, but this was the new world of mathematics, and computers, and high-tech electronics, and he was a schooled man— too skeptical and too educated to still believe in such old-world magic… But when we came upon that little capsized boat Christmas morning— 500 miles too far west between Cuba and Florida, he ordered search and rescue maneuvers, and dispatched his crew, and alerted the Coast Guard… then crossed himself, his hands, unconsciously deploying saintly aide to the lost seamen; his heart, still hoping for a Christmas miracle… -47- ...

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