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  1. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Paladin 2017, so yeah, there would be rules, but I didn't want to bog the story down with them. I figured that just saying there were processes and check and things that needed to be done, that was enough to let the readers know that due process was followed. 🙂
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    Chapter 15

    Mark Ponyboy Peters commented on kbois's story chapter in Chapter 15

    Let's Ride!
  3. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @Paladin yes ... there are processes that must be followed, but my take is that as Tony is the driving force behind the hostel, he knows all the details and which strings can be pulled, if needed 🙂
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    Yes @weinerdog 😋 The story is partly written ... it is called Seventeen Again and is in a follow on from The Seventeenth Summer and Kandanga Falls ... though I need to finish the second part of KF first, before I finish Seventeen Again. All I will give away at this stage is that it is set in 1995 and the kids name is Flip ... short for Phillip ... he's past high school age and likes surfing and cars 😁😁😁
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    Hmmm . . . @Ivor Slipper . . . do you see that as an issue? I remember when I was a kid our next-door neighbours would take in kids from the orphanage for the weekend. I just never thought it might be an issue . . . but I guess in this day and age it could be looked at differently.
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    @Summerabbacat see . . . miracles do happen! lol There are a few twists and turns still to come in the final 5 chapters. Hope it all falls into place just how I'd like it to! 🤞
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    -- Chapter 34 -- The shift started quietly, the way most real changes do. He had heard it first from Constable Leggatt, the day he visited the house. Someone from the parties – the one at the sports ground and the one at the quarry – had finally dared to speak up. There was no loud declaration, it was just enough of a whisper that the story began to gather steam, and generate a life of its own. The ears of people who had not been in attendance pricked at the words spoken; that it h
  8. Mark Ponyboy Peters

    Chapter 15

    Mark Ponyboy Peters commented on kbois's story chapter in Chapter 15

    Here ya go. A slightly different take...
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    Chapter 15

    Mark Ponyboy Peters commented on kbois's story chapter in Chapter 15

    @kbois I have faith in you that you'll "do the right thing!" by these guys! 😁
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    @Lozza thank you, kind sir!
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    @Summerabbacat I only said it was catchy . . . I didn't say I was a fan! hahaha
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    @Summerabbacat catchy!
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    Pfffttt!!! We ALL know that YOU wouldn't have relations with that woman @Summerabbacat 🤣🤣🤣
  14. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    So, @Summerabbacat I take it you don't want Levi to have "relations" with that woman?
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    @Philippe nailed it!
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    @weinerdog that @Summerabbacat dude has had it in for the girl since day one! 🤣🤣🤣
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    -- Chapter 33 -- Levi was in the backyard mid-morning on Saturday when he heard a vehicle coming along Beachside Lane, and when he poked his head around the side of the house and glanced at the gateway it was just in time to see Tony’s car slowing, before pulling into the Avalon driveway. Matt and Luke stepped out onto the verandah as the engine cut, having also heard the vehicle. In the front seats were Tony and Aaron, while in the back seat Jamie and Callum sat quietly, looking out at the
  18. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    Haha ... nothing like that. Just trying to set some expectations...
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    Should I turn that into a song, do you think? LOL
  20. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    Hi @Simon41 thanks for the comment, and I hear you, but to be perfectly honest, it's usually the chapter itself that tells me where and when it should end. I usually aim for an average of 3,000 to 3,500 words per chapter -- a manageable size for both reader and writer. Sometimes they may be shorter or longer ... but I guess that's just the luck of the draw! 🤔
  21. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @drsawzall so, you saw Blazing Saddles as well did you? lol
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    -- Chapter 32 -- Levi brought it up with his friends at lunch, the way he brought most uncertain things up now – very carefully, and only after he had turned it over a few thousand times in his own head first, as he tried to figure out all the different ways it could potentially go wrong. They were on the far bench under the trees. After making a brief appearance, Brooke had drifted off to talk to someone from her maths class, which left just the three guys in their usual loose triangle
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    What the . . . You were in the Beach Boys as well???
  24. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    $9000??? That fucking agent told me he only got $6000 for it when he brokered the deal! You just wait till I get my hands on the thieving bastard!!! 😠
  25. Mark Ponyboy Peters
    @drsawzall and didn't we see you on skates in Olivia Newton-John's Xanadu music video? I was almost certain it was you with a blue shirt on . . .
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