FAREWELL, FRIEND: Surfer Joaquin Velilla's friends and fiancée, Mariela Acosta, prayed yesterday afternoon before paddling out at Ehukai Beach Park during a memorial service. Velilla disappeared last week in the North Shore surf.
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