36. written. Once Upon a Time in Nazi-Occupied France.....

[actuallyagolem]

I'm sure you've all heard by now, but Clapet's graduated. He went home today. Even though he liked to use my face as a punching bag and stabbed me twice, I'm going to miss the guy. Despite everything, all those bad things he did, some of which I'm sure some of you saw or experienced first-hand for yourselves, he was human and I could relate to him

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[mrs_persson]

You killed Hitler.

My goodness, I'd no idea.

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[actuallyagolem]

Yeah. I must have shot him about forty times in the face. I got a little carried away.

I told Howie a while ago. He said it wasn't the history that a lot of people knew, so I just kept it to myself.

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[mrs_persson]

Can't say I blame you for getting carried away. There's a time-stream out there where a friend of mine ensured that he was arrested for murder before he could even be elected Chancellor. And there's another where, I'm sorry to say, I and a few other people made the bad decisions that allowed him to come to power-that was relatively early in my career.

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[actuallyagolem]

So there are a lot of different versions of what happened out there. I guess I'm not too surprised. I kind of like your friend's time-stream best though, and then mine second best.

The things we heard. The things we saw even, with our own eyes, Una! I would have loved to have lived an uneventful life, if it meant those things would have never happened at all.

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[mrs_persson]

I know how you feel. Of course, the reason I've lived an excessively eventful life is to try and find or help create a world where such atrocities need never happen-a fool's quest, perhaps, but I can't not try. Sir Seaton did well, and I'm not surprised-he's one of the greatest metatemporal detectives to have ever lived. But even in that time-stream he can't stop all the terrible things that will happen.

You sound like you're ready to move on. Where will you go?

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[actuallyagolem]

If you have that kind of ability, you should at least try. You're a good person for trying, Una.

Home. Back to Boston.

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[mrs_persson]

I'm as good as circumstances allow me to be. Which is better than nothing, I think.

Go listen to some good music for me while you're there, eh?

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[actuallyagolem]

It is better than nothing. A lot fucking better than nothing.

Oh, I'll try. I'm going to see as many movies and dance to as many songs as I can.

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[mrs_persson]

Enjoy yourself, Donny. You deserve it.

And i should give you fair warning that there's a chance I may come passing through once I'm done here.

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[actuallyagolem]

I'll try. It's gonna take some getting used to, plus I'd be leaving some people behind and that's...you know. Tough.

I think you should. I'd like that a lot.

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[mrs_persson]

I know. Moving on is never really easy.

Well, keep an eye out for me then. And even if you don't remember me, I'll remember you.

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[actuallyagolem]

I think with everything I've been through, I deserve to at least remember everything. I'll have myself a chat with the Admiral.

Anyway, I hope I do see you.

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[mrs_persson]

If everything for me here works out, count on it.