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You sit across the table from him, forcing yourself to eat while your bruised insides try to knit themselves back together; and he pats you on the head and smiles at you, and you know the reprieve's already lasted too long, he's going to come for you tonight, or tomorrow, or maybe the next day.
Starfish 1999
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Still - while these are seem like small reprieve's from a potentially disastrous problem, this slowdown is all but delaying the inevitable - which is that oil is a limited resource and it will get more scarce no matter what, even if it takes a little longer.
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