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November 5, 2005

Ted: Waiting at the Foot of the Obelisk

He had grown up with the knowledge that something was just slightly wrong. All his friends thought he was a little kooky, but it didn't shake his feeling that something was missing; not just with him, but with the world. Jumps-Quickly gathered fruit from the branches around him. He went out with the other young males every day in parties of five to work the trees. He longed to change jobs but knew his mother would stop him until he at least old enough to mate. Walks-Erect would wait, hopefully, until next season, then he would lead his own troop.

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