Just One Damned Thing After Another (The Chronicles of St Mary's, #1)
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‘Edward found me – in a bar, obviously.
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There are, or will be, people who think History can be manipulated, made more profitable.
Penn Hackney
Of course
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‘We know that now is a vulnerable time for St Mary's. Expenditure is massive, there's no financial return, and losses are high.’
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‘It was nearly an emotional moment, but we took it like men.’
Penn Hackney
Haha Real men don’t cry.
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thought about how he’d left everything behind to do this. I wondered if he had leapt at the chance to escape his past. I think I would have. No, I already had.
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The guy had real articulacy issues.
Penn Hackney
Is that a word?
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Penn Hackney
Naked in the wild.
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a blaster
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a stun gun
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pepper...
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Special ...
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pyroclastic flows.
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Penn Hackney
Would have swallowed a lot of insects.
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Maiasaurae,
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Troodons
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‘Ankylosaurus,’
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We were on Day 74 of a near-perfect mission.
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Penn Hackney
Ewww, yuck.
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It's always been a question of trust.
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trust to luck.
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And then the built-in female guilt kicked in. Had I somehow given him the impression …? Was it all my own fault?
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Penn Hackney
Haha
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I had no proof. And nothing had actually happened. It would be my word against his. The age-old female dilemma.
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smarm
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God help me, I took all this meekness at face value.
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They warned us over and over at St Mary's, but until it actually happens to you, you can have no idea of the speed and silence of a raptor attack.
Penn Hackney
Chilling
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Cretaceous road rash.
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Maybe I should be looking at office jobs again.
Penn Hackney
Haha
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Sussman being Sussman; alternately loved and loathed.
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How could I have let this happen?
Penn Hackney
She like to blame herself, but it doesn’t last.
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recrimination, grief, and regret
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for the first time in my life I missed someone,
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this work had to be done and only I could do it.
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Penn Hackney
Haha - see p.
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Penn Hackney
And a rotting one, at that.
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Data. Unique, priceless, hard-won data.
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Torosaurus
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Parasaurolophus
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Andrew Ankylosaurus,
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raptors,
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velocira...
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Proceratops;
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Penn Hackney
Haha
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Helen
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Nurse Hunter
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Mrs Mack
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Penn Hackney
Yay!
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Penn Hackney
Haha simile
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Dr Bairstow
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Sometimes I think I’m too stupid to live.
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