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14 ROUSES FAL L 2022

My poor father needed a son. Instead, he got two daughters. My older sister wasn’t much interested in dad’s twin passions: boating and fishing. But me, I was right there with him, his little pigtailed sidekick bopping around the center console. Eventually, my parents bought a fishing camp on Trappers Canal, a sandy spit of land about a 15-minute boat ride from Venice. The canal was populated with

humidity thick as a sponge — my father was out in our boat. A successful business owner by profession, dad worked hard, but fished harder. He lived to be on the water, casting for specks and reds in the brackish marshes off Venice, Louisiana.

Susan Langenhennig Granger

O n most summer weekends when I was a kid, when the weather was good — and by good, I mean, furnace-hot with

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