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1 " You have done well," Grandfather said. " We thank you." " We were afraid sometimes," Jetsam replied." Good." Grandfather's eyes smiled. " That means you had the courage to keep trying. "
2 " If you ask people where they're from, they will typically say the name of the city where they were born, or perhaps the place on Earth's surface where they spent their formative years. Nothing wrong with that. But an astrochemically richer answer might be, " I hail from the explosive jetsam of a multitude of high-mass stars that died more than 5 billion years ago. "
3 " [W]e all care deeply about things that seem totally inconsequential to other people. We all carry around with us the flotsam and jetsam of perceived humiliations that actually mean nothing. We are a mass of vulnerabilities, and who knows what will trigger them? "
4 " The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships. "
