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• The following version of this book was used to create this Lesson Plan: Dybek, Stuart. "We Didn't." I Sailed With Magellan. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2003. Paperback.

• The story is preceded by an epigraph from Israeli poet Yehuda Amichai's "We Did It": "We did it in front of the mirror/And in the light. We did it in darkness,/ In water, and in the high grass" (233).

• The story is in first person and takes the form of an apostrophe to the narrator's former girlfriend.

• From some point in the future, he is reminding her of the events of one particular summer, when their sexual explorations led them to nearly have sex one evening on Oak Street Beach.

• Although the speaker's name is not mentioned in "We Didn't," from the context of I Sailed With Magellan, the reader is aware that the narrator is Perry Katzek, the...

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