The old man awoke just before sunrise, as he often did. He was walking by the ocean's edge to   1  the new day. As he moved through the morning dawn, he   2  on a faint, far away motion.

He saw a young man, bending and waving arms, dancing on the beach, no   3    that he was in celebration of the perfect day soon to begin. As he   4   , he realized that the young man was not dancing to the bay, but rather bending to looking through what was left by the night's   5 , stopping now and then to   6  up starfish and then standing, to throw it back into the   7  .