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The Friendliest Place On Earth Dialectical Journal

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Resources drained quickly with an extra mouth to feed and when winter did truly bear down on us, it was unrelenting. When the first snow fell two weeks before Christmas, we thought we had sufficient firewood to last us through, but we never anticipated how much we would need to burn just to stay warm. Not just warmth, in preparing food, boiling snow down, heating water, so needless to say, it went fast.
Game became as scarce as the firewood, making all of us lose a noticeable amount of weight. All of us made certain that Cassie had the most to eat, even if that meant we all went without occasionally. It was never a spoken thing, but each of us took turns giving extra portions to her.
Cassie remained silent, but more helpful than …show more content…

He retold the story of how he and Harold had seen the plane fall from the sky, their long walk back to town, and then he elaborated on everything he had seen. I had heard the beginning before but this was the first that Karl went into detail. I found myself unable to eat, completely entranced by his story.
“When the lights and power went out, some other switch went off in people. People you thought you knew… did things you would never believe,” he told us.
"There was complete panic at first when me and Harold made it back, but the police there and mayor were able to calm everyone down and keep some peace for a bit" he continued. "It started out well enough, people met at town hall meetings, some volunteered to travel to the larger cities to get help or answers, they never came back, though. At first, people even shared food and resources. After all, it was only a matter of days before the power came back...ya know, that's what they were telling us."
“‘This is Timberbrook’, the mayor told us, ‘we take care of each other here.’” Karl said, emulating the voice of the town leader. That notion, he told us, didn’t last

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