Cancer Sharks

Cancer Sharks

Alone, Trapped, & Making Rope

(Or, How I Make It)

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Amanda Goodwin
Aug 10, 2026
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Spoiler Alert: this piece gives away the ending to A&E’s & Netflix’s “Alone Australia” - if you’re watching that and don’t want the ending spoiled, skip this piece.

It was likely the summer of second grade, which would make me eight and my sister, Lindsey, six. She, my mom, and I were in Maine, taking a weekend to go to her father’s beach house in Saco.

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