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Resolve
Pepehi i ka mana‘olana
To dash hopes.
Aunty Ake had already been in bed for an hour, but I was clicking through YouTube videos looking for underwater shots of reef fish when I saw it trending: Sharkiller Doomsday.
This ought to be good for a laugh, I thought.
I clicked on it.
Jay.
He was sitting on his bed in our room talking into the camera. Shocked, I didn’t understand what he was saying for a minute.
“Sharks are mindless killers. Look what they did to me,” he said, tilting the camera down his leg, zooming in on the pink and bruised stump below his knee.
It’s real.
“Sharks took away my leg. I’ll never be normal again. I was surfing off Piko Point in Lauele Town, Hawai’i, when it happened. It could happen to you or your friends or your family.”
He turned the camera
