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A typhoon that swept over and killed his best friend

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Because they were in the eye of the storm (the calm part) and it would be 20-30 minutes probably until the storm rose again and would be a problem.

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Because K is deep in concentration looking at something he found on the beach.

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He sees his friend laying on his side, smiling widely and reaching out for him.

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He walks into the waves for the first time since K was taken and eventually falls forward into the water.

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When the seventh man was a boy, a great typhoon overtook his small town and killed his best friend as well. For years, he had nightmares about drowning, about K taking him and having guilt that he did not run over and pull his friend off the shore. When his father died of cancer, his brother sent him a box of things, which included paintings from his friend and at first he could not look at them. Eventually, he took the time to really look at them and began to understand that he had let the guilt take him over and ruin his life and the joys he once felt and that his friend K embraced. He returned home to sit where the tragedy had happened and let the guilt and pain wash away with the waves that he could once again sit in.