peak of him laughing at the greatest joke he’d ever heard. This was the image imprinted on Hai’s mind when he signed in at New Hope. Every generation says this of itself, but these were indeed bewildering and unprecedented times he lived in, a time before iPhones were everywhere, and people still looked up as they walked, their heads filled with self-generated thoughts floating up from deep pits in the subconscious. A time when you still knocked on each other’s doors, and if you wanted to talk to somebody, you had to call them on a landline, listen to their mother’s breathing for a while,
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