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These days you can either live in a place where houses are affordable, or live in a place where there are jobs. Ah well.
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Two people in the hot spring pool below Knox and Rodrigo have gotten out and are drying themselves, readying to leave. Val puts her book in her bag and Audri observes, “oh good, one of the hot springs is free.” The ease themselves into the pool, and Audri says, “god, that feels good. I love coming here. Although I’m rarely organized enough to make enough time for it.” Val asks, “are you a student at the university?” Leaning back, Audri says, “yeah. Studying social services. It’s important work. You?” Deflated by her own life, Val looks away and says, “I work for Sweetcan’s Pecans. Mostly marketing. It’s a stupid and pointless job really. But it bought me a house, so, no complaints.” Now it’s Audri’s turn to look discouraged, and she says, “I have heard of this era of america where buying a house was possible.” Not to be outdone in the “feeling discouraged” department, Val says, “that makes me feel both old and lucky. And it’s kinda’ sad that i’d prefer to be young and unlucky.”
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