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The Unnamed Nuclear Disaster
Because it's an unnamed nuclear disaster, we don't know what happens. And so I kind of gave myself a little bit of artistic license by not being specific about it. But there's lots of joyful beginnings in the book. There's a moment where a carrot grows for the first time and for Dylan, it might as well be a new box set. Why is it important to have those moments of joy in there? I think children and young people now, they're being raised with so many of these fears and they're very real fears. When we're talking about their future, the future that the planet, they're we're leaving them, it's always terribly depressing and dark.
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