Girl meets boy - Ali Smith

 

Before she left, my mother gave me a compass. But when I tried to use it, when I was really far out, lost at sea, the compass didn't work. So I tried the other compass, the one my father had given me before he left. But that compass was broken too.

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So you looked out across deep waters, Robin said. And you decided, by yourself, and with the help of a clear night and some stars, which way was north and which was south and which way was east and which was west.