I’m leaving the country just in the nick of time: across the street in the park, emanating from the woods, is an eerie, sci-fi sound… the coming of the cicadas. It sounds for all the world as if the giant, atomic ants from “Them” are making their way toward my house…
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I think it’s time to stop taking polls on this issue.
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Oh, they meant the other side of the island
When I first saw the BBC News headline, “Gilligan to appear before inquiry,” my first thought was that someone was finally going to get to the bottom of the three-hour tour gone horribly wrong.
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