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По контексту, парня, который хотел "зайцем" попасть на корабле в Антарктику, сняли с судна и передали в руки таможенного инспектора.
At Sandy Hook, New Jersey, a nose past New York City, the miserable truant was placed in the hands of a customs inspector and sent back toward Hoboken, an unusual catch plucked from the sea. Far away on the horizon, back in the direction from which he came, sparkled the lights of the Coney Island amusement park and the Far Rockaway beaches where Billy had joined the Polish Falcons on swims. Was a lifetime spent practicing for this moment supposed to
have better prepared him than this?
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