Epilogue: The Memory Remains

It's now been four, almost five days since we disembarked the ship, and I still miss it. I can still see all the people and characters I met, all the passengers I somehow entertained, all the magical moments I made with all of them...

They're all still so fresh in my mind to me.

With the help of my photo album on Facebook, I can go back to those memories every time I wish to escape from my life. I can revisit getting ambushed by Goofy, playing a round of mini-golf while Max Goof watches intently, confronting Cinderella about her supposed "secret identity", cracking jokes with Tiana and Snow White, chatting with Captain Mickey, and getting pecked on the cheek by Daisy and Minnie.

But sometimes the best and clearest memories...are those without picture or video to confine them.

And sometimes those memories are born of what would otherwise be a tragic happening.

With these words I have now entrusted to the clicking and clacking of my keyboard, the memory of getting rescued from the cold Atlantic waters by, essentially, two Disney Princesses...one a mermaid, the other a bookworm...who shared a common ground they only fleetingly knew they had in their affection for me, who would otherwise be just another passenger on a cruise ship...will survive until the end of time itself.

Speaking of those two Disney Princesses, they were both saddened when they learned that I had left the ship without being given time to say goodbye, but the word on the wind says that each has now found solace...in the other's arms at night.

But I know that they are only wishing that I would come back and sail with them again. Same can be said of all the Disney Fantasy staff.

And they know just as well as I do that it's also my wish. So consider this your official notice:

Disney Fantasy, prepare yourself...for someday soon...Luke Lynch will be back.

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