hey soul sister
She turned to Gaston and asked him a question as though daring him.
"You think you can get up there?"
"Dangerous in the dark."
Leo answered, but he was s already hoisting his heavy camera up onto his shoulder.
"But me might not get another chance like this."
Abby smiled when she heard that kind of answer from him and so without wasting another second, she beckoned at the other party to get going.
"Then let us do it."
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They quickly discover how difficult it is to get up the mound of trash. Every foothold is precarious, every step a struggle for balance atop the shifting garbage and sliding mud. And yet they're only at the fringes of the landfill. At the very center, the mass will, in theory, be even more unstable: loose garbage on the surface, layers and layers of compacted, rotting garbage in the middle and, at the bottom, a