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... l direction and decided to take a cup of coffee outside onto the porch. There was a table there that I could use. I needed to examine my tropes and decide which ones I would be taking into the next storyline. I finally had enough of them that I couldn't just take them all without exceeding my limit.

We had been told that background tropes would affect the storylines we were in. I had understood that but I never really grasped how significant the impact could be until our most recent stor ...

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