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Chapter 128: The Morning After Everything

Author: Grandpa preslee
last update Petsa ng paglalathala: 2026-05-18 20:05:51

Dinner had been acceptable.

Ethan had said so and he had been right. He and Noah had made pasta, cooked properly,

seasoned correctly, presented without fanfare. I arrived to find them already eating,

Cantilever supervising from the counter he was not supposed to be on. I sat down and

ate with them and listened to a conversation about bridge cable tensile strength that had

moved, by the time I finished my bowl, into whether the term optimal was being used

correctly in a paper Noah had read that
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