¹     The gray baseball cap bounced along on the waves of the ocean outside the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Of course, he did not know where he was, yet!
 
²     "I wonder where I am?" he thought. "The sun still feels good, but the water is getting just a little colder." He noticed a jellyfish floating by.
 
³     "I hope he does not notice me!" the hat thought.
 
⁴     As the jellyfish meandered away, the hat heard a splash just beside him. "What's that?" he thought with alarm. Then he heard a squeak and felt water spray his face.
 
⁵     "Who's that?" the hat called out with fear in his voice. He looked this way and that, quickly scanning the area around him. Suddenly he saw a fin!
 
⁶     The hat was terrified. Had he floated into shark territory? The next moment, though, he breathed a sigh of relief as he saw a smooth, gray head of a dolphin cut through the surface. He had heard that dolphins were friendly, so he relaxed a bit.
 
⁷     "Hi there," said the dolphin.
 
⁸     "Hi," answered the hat. "Do you live here?" he asked the dolphin.
 
⁹     "I sure do. I love it here. It's a beautiful beach with lots of friendly people. I wonder if it will last, though."
 
¹⁰     "Why do you say that?"

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