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Weekly Contest #359
The Dr Grace August Observatory was eight hundred miles into the Arctic Circle, on a tiny Norwegian island. The five environmental scientists currently staying there had been in almost complete darkness for three months. In one week’s time, the polar night would end and the sun would finally rise. Dr John Duke was ready to go home. He missed his family. His wife and two daughters had called him in the months he had been here, though if anything, the calls had made his homesickness worse. They reminded him of all the little moments he was mi...
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