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Submitted to Contest #142
People often asked him if he ever felt lonely when he was out here. If he felt isolated, alone, vulnerable. He always smiled and shook his head, never looking up from whatever task he was working on. In truth he only really understood loneliness as a concept. They would invariably express amazement, go on to tell him how they could never do it. Tell him of the primal fears that wracked their brains when isolated from their fellow man, surrounded by a hostile environment. He would continue to work as they satiated their need to communicate, s...
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