This Is Us

My Octopus Dad

Swimming with my Dad through calm and rough seas.

Erica Rhodes
Human Parts
Published in
5 min readOct 4, 2020

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Photo: Tammy616/Getty Images

I’d like to be under the sea in an octopus’s garden in the shade. We would be warm, below the storm, in our little hideaway beneath the waves.

—The Beatles

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