I sailed a bit as a child, but it wasn't until I was around 40, when I was halfway through Patrick O'Brian's 'Master and Commander' novels, that I had the sudden epiphany that I had to go sail on a square-rig ship.
When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody, you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.
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