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The Car Hasn't Seen Jack in Ten Years
"Gerad hasn't seen jack in ten years. Calls jack and says, i need somehone. He's got nowhere to go." So Jack just goes and picks him up, no questions asked. The bacan tree was still front and centre, but smaller and unremarkable. In my memories of child it had been a bohemoth of rough, gray and red bark that dwarfed the house. By the front door, painted butter yellow, i remembered it as white. This house was haunted with memory. A heaviness pinned me to the seat. My body knew that if i went into house, there was no pretending i was a 26-year-old paripoleg
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