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The Weight of Our World

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Parts 44
Time 9h 41m

"The world ended. 
Well it was bound to wasn't it? 

At the time, it was not the fact that it was destroyed that came as a shock, it is was how we survived that caused the most disruption.

Little more than five hundred human beings survived and every last one of them is somebody that I know."

The end of the world was only the beginning of the downward spiral that became socially anxious Laura MacPhaid's existence as humanity fights to find their place in the galaxy. 

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