"`Lika Boy, da bay was choke witʻ `ahi."

In an upcoming scene in Kamau, Alani Apio has Miko giving a heart-breaking monologue about a bay that was once filled with `ahi. (Try to resist the temptation of reading ahead on your own. Bet you canʻt.) For the longest time, I did not know the haole name for `ahi, which is yellow fin tuna. Personally, Iʻm not in to fishing. Dad took me every weekend when I was young and once I pierced my finger with a fish hook, I asked Dad for a dog. How many of you actually know what `ahi looks like when it isnʻt cubed, bathed in chili pepper shoyu and clutched at the end of a pair of chopsticks?

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Imagine what Michael must have seen in that bay.