Farthest

"No", the man said in a low tone, looking out from the ferry's railing and over the bay, "not there and not beyond there and a hundred or a thousand miles past that." The two small children looked up at him, wide-eyed. "Where I come from," he said, "is oceans and nations from here, on the other side of the world, all my family and friends and the places I know and love and cherish," and while the boy and girl tried to imagine such vastness, a something almost like a tear rose up in the wake of his eye.