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At the end, Lorene and Karen meet on a ship leaving for the mainland.
Karen then tosses two leis into the water.
She tells Alma, " There's a legend: if they float to shore, you'll return to Hawaii.
If they float out to sea, you'll never return.
" Alma says she will never return, telling Karen that her fiancé was an Army Air Corps pilot killed in a B-17 during the attack, " he was awarded the Silver Star, they sent it to his mother.
She wrote me.
She wanted me to have it.
They are very fine people, Southern people.
He was named after a general.
Robert E. Lee ...
Prewitt.
" Karen recognizes Prewitt's name from conversations with Warden.
Lorene holds Prewitt's treasured bugle mouth piece.
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