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The highway is under construction. With another election in the fall, the politicians of St. John’s are shopping for votes. The people around here can be bought with a twisted line of asphalt. They like knowing they can leave their homes and go to the places Lloyd Robertson is always talking about on the news. Not that they will ever leave, but they like knowing they can. That’s real freedom—being able to do something and not doing it. Caleb is poking his way up the Great Northern Peninsula. He doesn’t look forward to the highway being completed. Too many tourists escaping their worlds and toting their coffee makers in backpacks will ruin the good loneliness Caleb has always known on his summer trips up here.
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Leggo, C. (2012). Dolphins Don’t Swim on Mountaintops. In: Leggo, C. (eds) Sailing in a Concrete Boat. Social Fictions Series, vol 3. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-955-8_22
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