Notes of a Manchild

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Here I am. Back home. Rick's back home too. Strange. Mom's having surgery. Dad is working himself to death. The dogs are getting old. How did we get here? 

The occidental states were formed shortly before the end of the Last War, as a last ditch attempt at preventing nuclear holocaust, peace-walker drones armed with nukes at every conceivable border, ready to light up the earth at a moment's notice. Thing about nukes-and deterrence, for that matter-is that the farther away you get from the time when what was supposed to be the last nuke went off, the less terrible they seem. continuum? It was inevitable.All Rights Reserved

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