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My name is Paul Tuff.

I'm a contributing writer to the New York Times magazine.

And back in 2014, the magazine published a story that I wrote about one day in Montauk,

New York.

And I remember it, I was living in Montauk at the time.

And the way the story came about was there was one day in the middle of summer in 2013,

where I and the rest of town started hearing helicopters and planes flying overhead.

And word gradually spread, starting in the fishing community here in Montauk, and then

beyond to people like me, that a fisherman, a lobsterman named John Aldridge, had gone

overboard in the middle of the night.

And it turned into this big search.

The whole town got involved in news spread, and it really affected the town not just that

day, but really that whole summer and beyond that.

I'm back in Montauk this summer, and I've been swimming in the ocean every time I go out

there, and I'm bobbing in the waves even a few feet offshore.

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