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Deleted scenes from Leave Society

Deleted scenes from Leave Society

Selected scenes and sentences not included in the published book.

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Jun 25, 2024
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I have a ~41,000 word file of material I didn’t use in Leave Society. I was going through it today to find things that I could include in essays in the essay-collection I’m currently working on (which I’m thinking of titling either Reasons to Live or Life in Wartime). Below are some scenes/lines that were at some point in Leave Society but which I delet…

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