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Submitted to Contest #60
Settlement 24 once had a different name and a different location. To the east of its current position the top few floors of a tower block could be seen at low tide; a reminder that a town had been there before the rise in sea level had swamped it. The view reminded Professor Jolami Henderson that many of her students had no idea what the world, or even their small part of it, used to be like. This was not their fault; they are too young to have known. She was there to teach a lucky few of them; the mistakes of the past must not be re...
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