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We lost our elderly, dementing French charge

8 December 2018

9:00 AM

8 December 2018

9:00 AM

I entered the cave house carrying groceries and panting from the climb to find an old hippie woman displaying rugs to Catriona. Evidently Catriona had narrowed her final choice down to the two spread out on the red floor tiles. She and the hippie were silently contemplating them. One was about six feet by four, the other four by two.

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