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I'm so eager to find out what happens next.

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Oklahoma strip, Georgia. I assume an airplane is out of the question?

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Like the Soviets, I'm guessing the CCSA has invested heavily into air defense.

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founding

I don't want to use paypal...

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I'm wondering what it will be like crossing the Mississippi..... Have they figured out how far into the river state jurisdictions reach? What about ever-shifting islands? Might there be "Abortion Boats" in the river?

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Start the damned trial!

Sorry. I'm a little grumpy. Just found and fixed my refrigerator leak; the nut on the water valve for the ice machine had worked loose. Some new teflon tape and a good tightening after a thorough clean up under the fridge and everything but my back is working great.

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Think positive!

✅ Clean behind the refrigerator.

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[wipes eyes]

I feel as if I've known Ren for years and have just only accepted that he's gone.

Maybe it's because I live within a half an hour of Couer d' Alene, Idaho and so much of the far-Reich attitude of that area that this story reads as all too terrifyingly familiar.

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My family lived in Coeur d'alene at the turn of the 1900's and my great-grandmother was born there - to a Scotsman from Ohio and a Lebanese woman who came to the US via France. If you ever read the census from either 1900 or 1910, it looked like the UN. So, now it's far-Reich. That sucks.

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It's such a beautiful area. It breaks my heart that so many of its' current occupants are fucking UGLY through and through.

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The Great Man has entered the courthouse, complaining about "the Biden trials."

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Fart on, McGasbag.

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Cry harder, loser.

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"I think the best way out is Georgia.”

Not what I would have expected ...

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I know, right? But his reasoning is solid. I just moved to northwest Georgia last fall (and I love it! The people and the food are absolutely wonderful, and it's a lot more progressive here than I had feared. A lot more progressive!) and they are entirely correct about all the back roads. Not to mention rivers to cross and forests to hide in. They just might have a fighting chance. I'm heartbroken that Ren won't be able to join them, though.

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Very related...ad dropped from Gavin Newsom about the travel bans:

Fugitive

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQQ4FAzUo8w

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Horrific.

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VERY related!

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I'm seeing the correlation between Bill's explanation of how a record player works ("It starts small, riding those tiny bumps, making a tiny current, but by the end, when it’s amplified, its effect is huge") and not only Lorinda's situation but trying to overcome the CCSA system as a whole.

See? I can understand nuance, lol! 🤓

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