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Submitted to Contest #320
Houses seem far and lonely enough on agricultural flatlands, and some are even separated by the woods. This area was once a forest, then nothing, then a more orderly forest with spots of clearings lived in by people who tend their soil and animals for food and money and the respect of their own selves. Here, two neighbors are literally distant, and each is confined within their own pack of people—be it their family or employees or both—living in their bubble of chores inflated by necessity and pride. Some of them have been around forever, an...
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