Secret Lost in the Water
... Roch Carrier supports the saying “You never know what you have, until it is gone” in the short story “A Secret Lost in the Water”. ... As a young boy, the narrator lost interest in his father, yet as an adult he had a sense of pride about his father, realizing that his father was “famous in the region”(276) for the “gift” that he tried to pass on to his young son. ... He could no longer make the branch “writhe” or hear the sound of running water in his ears.