WalkerBoh

That’s why this story was stuck in my head! The damaged book from the library! I was reading it to my wife when we found the torn page. Mystery solved.

Syllables is correct, and that’s a really good point. Thank you.

Depends on who takes power. If they have no skin in the game and can make it seem like they’ve pulled strings to arrange it, then when no one can find solid ties to any group, it might actually prop them up. Can’t cut them off from support you can’t identify, so you never know how weak they are. Sure, it’s a gamble, but if nobody is cutting checks for the work and the new boss looks the other way, who would bother stepping up? Aside from the ones who lost face, of course.

More true than you think, Casey.

Even knowing that it was coming, I’m still tearing up.

He’s two twins. Maybe three. It’s complicated.

She really couldn’t. Once she got it through her skull, she was a lot nicer.

That’s a fight you’d lose anyway.

Poor guy almost invented Temu.