DELACROIX ISLAND, La. — “Hold up, Aaron,” Buddy Greco instructed his son as they bent over a sheet of fiberglass on the docked fishing boat. “You still cuttin’ it wrong.”
His tone on that hot afternoon last June was not unkind. But Aaron, 19, was tired of listening to his father, tired of fixing up the boat for a shrimp season that might never open, tired of wondering whether the future he had set his sights on was dissolving in front of him.
This was to have been the first year he could join Buddy fishing full time, his goal ever since he could remember. And then a hundred million gallons of oil had spewed into the Gulf of Mexico from BP’s offshore well, with no sign of stopping.
A slim replica of Buddy with dark good looks and a normally ample supply of teasing repartee, Aaron straightened up and threw the razor knife across the refinished deck.
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