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August 14 - October 14, 2020
catch the free water.
If it only rains once every six or seven years, why bother?
I’ve never felt so overwhelmed by water.
Amy Dunn is dead.
Three years old, unloved, and dead.
I taught her.
Christmas
the Garfield/Balter/Dory house.
We hear so much gunfire, day and night, single shots and odd bursts of automatic weapons fire, even occasional blasts from heavy artillery or explosions from grenades or bigger bombs.
we hear gunfire so much that we don’t hear it.
land sharks are on their way in. It’s just a matter of how long it takes for them to get hungry enough.
The miserable will be made even more miserable. None of that can help Amy.
Haha
Joanne Garfield
I’m the only person I know who has a bedroom to herself.
whiny Lisa,
giggly Robin
invisible ...
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I miss her, but I didn’t cause her death. I just can’t deny what all this says about us.”
There’s a world of things I don’t feel free to talk to anyone about.
Joanne is a friend. She knows me better than most people, and she has a brain. Why not talk to her? Sooner or later, I have to talk to someone.
“Rape, robbery, and now murder. Of course I think about it.
“There’s cholera spreading in southern Mississippi and Louisiana,”
There are too many poor people—illiterate, jobless, homeless, without decent sanitation or clean water.
Haha
“Tornadoes are smashing hell out of Alabama, Kentucky, Tennessee,
And there’s a blizzard freezing the northern midwest, killing even more people.
In New York and New Jersey, a measles epidemic is killing...
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our parents found the money to pay for all our immunizations.
If we have kids, I don’t see how we’ll be able to do even that for them.”
Donner hasn’t got a chance.
Harry says his ideas are scary. Harry says he’ll set the country back a hundred years.”
His own father thinks Donner is God. Harry wouldn’t agree with him on anything.”
“Why do you want to talk about this stuff,” Joanne asked, bringing me back to the real fire. “We can’t do anything about it.”
“We have to.”
We’re fifteen! What c...
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“We can get...
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arranging to survive so that we can do more than just get batted around
You can’t read the future. No one can.”
“You can,” I said, “if you want to. It’s scary, but once you get past the fear, it’s easy.
Nothing left but ruins, rats, and squatters.
I think most of the adults know. They don’t want to know, but they do.”
Donner’s just a kind of human banister.”
And having elections there
the latest in a two-and-a-half-century-long line of American Presidents make people feel that the country, the culture that they grew up with is still here—
She nodded. She reads a lot the way I do, reads all kinds of things.
A lot of things changed for the survivors.”
“What’s your point?” “The changes.”
it took a plague to make some of the people realize that things could change.”
People have changed the climate of the world.
!1993!
