A Message In A Bottle

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A Message In A Bottle · Page 24

People walk past shop windows while children sit and read on the steps and an old woman in a headscarf looks on.

In the end nobody wanted to know the truth; it was too complicated.

Especially for the people who used the reactors to run their lights and their washing machines, their televisions and their computers; especially for the people that made money using the reactors.

People everywhere pretended that it was all right. They told each other it wouldn’t affect them.

The authorities reassured them. They forgot that all water is the same water, all air is the same air.