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Chapter 4: Playing patience

'Screw the city, I’d rather be here. Help keep this place alive.'

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Chapter 2
Chapter 2: ‘I thinks about what it might take to keep you here’

I was at the back of the house hacking at wood one evening when fate walked up behind me.