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  1. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    November 2003 - Luke - When we left the house this morning I think we all felt that this would be a memorable day. Things were heating up around our little town, but I don’t think any of us had any real idea just how hot today, or the coming days, would get. I travelled into Macquarie Harbour with Tim and Guy, as I often did, while Matt headed into town to work in his own car. As I was leaving the house I stuck my head in the door of Aaron and Tony’s room to tell the
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    Yeah, I have that same problem with the Powerball . . . gets very depressing after a while when I get my hopes up every time, only to have them smashed against the rocks and broken into a million pieces! Anyhow, it was Guy's car with the headlights (chapter 11) and Matt's car with the brake fluid (chapter 24). There sure are some assholes in this town! I hope they can clean the place up!
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    Hmmm . . . interesting theory . . . but nah. You'll learn all about what happens with Nate and Lachy in due course, of course! And yes, Guy's car, then Matt's car . . . what can I say, but the town is filled with assholes . . . but there are good folks too, as you will also soon find out in the final few chapters! I do love that everyone is getting so invested in this story! It's probably the only story I ever received negative feedback on when first posted, and the was mostly due to the chopping and changing by having each chapter coming from a different person's POV, but you guys are seeing it exactly how it was intended to be seen, and I'm grateful for all your input! So, thank you! MP
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    November 2003 - Tony - The house seemed so quiet after everyone had left this morning, leaving just Aaron and me there alone. It felt nice. It felt like for the first time in my life I was in a place where I was accepted for being just who I was, with no expectations on me other than to just be me. I can't explain how . . . what's the word . . . liberating, I think, that feels. I know that I probably didn't deserve to have been welcomed here, especially after the tro
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    November 2003 - Matt - News always seems to travel fast in small towns like ours. It always has, and I guess it always will. Whether it is good news or bad news it simply doesn't matter; the old gossip trail can always be depended upon to start up quite quickly when something is afoot. Usually by nightfall of the first day you can be sure that anyone who matters will know the ins and outs of what is going on. By the end of the second day it can be guaranteed that eve
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    My only experience with them was getting to pat one when I was about 10 years old and we visited a 'Waterworld' kind of place on the coast that had them in their shows. I think it was the same place where I got to hold a koala . . . geez, the sharp claws on those things!!! lol
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    Wow! What an awesome experience to have had! Thank you for sharing.
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    Thank you!
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    Wow! That would have been incredible (once you recovered after first thinking a shark had you!) 😀
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    November 2003 - Justin - There are few better ways to start the day than by spending it on the beach, I have recently discovered. It doesn't matter if I am sitting on a surfboard, bobbing on the ocean, legs dangling in the cool seas while waiting for a wave to catch, or just paddling along while watching the eastern sky grow progressively lighter and admiring the changes in colour as night turns to day. This is one place where I feel at peace. To the east I ofte
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    I don't think I've ever heard the term Dutch Uncle before ... but it was easy enough to figure out 🙂
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    What a killer soundtrack our movie is going to have!!! ❤️❤️❤️
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    October 2003 - Scott - 'Hey, did you know that they've taken in a stray out at the farmhouse?' Justin said to me one Tuesday morning in October. We were sitting at the breakfast table on the first day of school going back following the spring holidays, which just happened to also be the last day of the October long weekend. This was one of our busiest times of the year, so we were also still trying to catch our breath from the holiday rush, which had only ended the
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    ❤️ 🤣 See... another post where I need more than one icon 😉
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    Yeah, I'd like those powerball numbers too please. That way I could give up my job and just keep writing! 😛
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    October 2003 - Luke - A wise man once told me that nothing ever stays the same. Things have to be constantly changing in order for us to move forward, in order for us to learn and mature and grow. I'm sure he was right, but sometimes it's hard to understand why things happen a particular way, or why they should even occur at all. Are the things that happen to us a part of the grand plan from the masters of our universe? Or are they all just random events, seemingly w
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    And rest assured you will all find out how Ben and Sam are doing in the next story!
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    Yup! Congratulations @weinerdog!!! You win the Kewpie Doll! 😁
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    August 2003 - Tim - ‘Okay then, so does somebody here want to bring me up to speed and tell me what the hell happened and just how the hell I got here, ‘cause I’m feeling a bit left out of the loop at the moment? And you better start at the very beginning please . . . I mean, like, from school, seeing as some of us apparently go back that far,’ Ben demanded. We had all gathered in the visitors’ room just down the corridor from the ward they had moved Ben into after h
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    Thank you, @Ivor Slipper
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    Oh yes. It's a well-known fact that champion mares rarely produce their equals . . . however, their daughters and grand daughters often do. It's all a bit hit-and-miss though . . . and that's one of the reasons I like hearing stories similar to the one from this years Melbourne Cup. Bred just down the road from where I live (about 45 minutes away) and from a mare that only cost $1000. Just shows that anyone can strike it lucky with the Sport of Kings! You've got to be in it to win it!
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    Ahhh... yes ... those females I know well!
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    Flipper was stuck in Florida ... and as talented a macropod that Skippy might be, she only ever mastered the occasional dip in the Hawkesbury River. Deep sea diving just wasn't her go! 😛
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    August 2003 - Samantha - The Intensive Care ward of the Macquarie Harbour Hospital was much like I expected it to be. Sterile. Cold. Smelling of disinfectant. Lots of machines going 'beep . . . beep . . . beep . . .' Nurses and doctors were rushing here and there. Anxious family members fearful of what was happening with their loved ones. Then add to that the occasional sound of crying or wailing. When I first came here two weeks ago, following Ben's
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    August 2003 - Ben - Nothing. That's all there was. No sounds. No light. Just this huge, dark emptiness, as if I had fallen into an abyss, deep and unending. I felt like I had been away some place. Some place far away, but now I was slowly coming back, my senses and awareness gradually returning, although with still nothing there to actually feel or hear, just an awareness that I was . . . errr . . . here. Very scary. Then it happened. Somewhere in the dista
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