Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
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We’ll both have to do fauna because it's big.’
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stuck in.
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Doctor Dowson,
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Chief Farrell,
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Barclay's team
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Professor Rapson,
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Kal and Peterson
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Sussman's
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Penn Hackney
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the Horse.
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The far-off sounds of violence receded in the afternoon sunshine. I enjoyed a pleasant feeling of isolation.
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You wanted me.’
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No one had ever been proud of me before. No happy, smiling family at my graduation.
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‘Well, as either Achilles or Kurt Cobain would probably have said, “A short life but a merry one.”‘
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what about a family?’ ‘Oh God, no. Families are the invention of the devil. I’m never doing that.’
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for some people families could be a source of strength and security. Just not for me.
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I knew what I wanted to hear, but he was shy, I was wary,
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‘One sniff of the glass and you’ll be unconscious;
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Haha - a non-drinker.
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Helen
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That was why she was thin and I wasn’t. Or would ever be. On the other hand, who eats toast without butter or marmalade?
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No wonder she was such a misery.
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Hmmm, the historical question: “what if ….?”
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sock bun
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years ago, shortly after I came to St Mary's,
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It does that feel like “years” have passed. Question.
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Kal was going for her snow princess look in glittering white and silver with Helen doing dominatrix in severely cut dark red.
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I’m not bright.
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I’m not bright.
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Have I said I’m not bright?
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Technicians wear orange.
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Haha - LOUD disco.
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Normally, I don’t like this sort of thing. I get panicky if held tightly, but this was – nice.
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after my childhood, would I be able to
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Sex is a bit like scratching a rash – it's nice when you stop.
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My room was warm and dim – a bit like me really
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‘I’m from the future.’
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after all, our now was someone else's past.
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Lucy.’
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Alice?’
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Alex.
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Stevie.
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‘There was – will be – an outbreak of flu.
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all public establishments closed. The country was at a standstill.
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‘They were working on a cure by that time; a vaccine.
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the boys weren’t mine. They didn’t even have the same father.
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