Twice a week turns out to be every 3 or 4 days. Please, make it 3 instead of 4, OK? A post tomorrow, yes?

I've been killing time until the next installment by reading over the comments. I absolutely agree with everyone else, and all the bits and pieces pulled from the story in quotes above. I'll add one additional quote, which when I read it just did me in:
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“I am Clark,” he whispered through rubbery lips.

“I know you are,”
I read Clark's whispered "I am Clark" and my heart just broke. mecry

"Hold on, my friends, to the Constitution and to the Republic for which it stands. Miracles do not cluster and what has happened once in 6,000 years, may not happen again. Hold on to the Constitution" - Daniel Webster