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Company Town
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
"This is brave, bold, crazy storytelling at the edge and doesn't read like anything else I've seen up or down the pike. I don't even know where she gets these ideas, but I hope she keeps getting them and writing the stories that result."--Chuck Wendig, New York Times bestselling author of Aftermath
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JoyBlue
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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**low pick** review here: https://debbybrauer.org/#company-town

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Butterfinger
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Mehso-so

There were moments I came close to giving up. If I had a trigger, it would be nuclear or radiation and there was a nuclear reactor that played a huge part in the futuristic story. A lot of stuff was happening. Sex workers were being killed in very gruesome ways and even Whitechapel made a visit in an immersion booth (that was pretty cool). If you like AI stories, you may like this one. It was not boring in the least, but I just can't pick it.

Andrew65 Well done 👏👏👏 4y
BookishBelle It was definitely a strange one! 4y
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Victoriahoperose
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Mehso-so

I tried to fly through this to return it for #lmpbc. I will mail it out this week. Thanks for sharing this one. Not my normal genre, but interesting.

phatsallylee I'm behind on my reading but i hope to mail out my last book this week! @BookishBelle 4y
BookishBelle Thanks for the update @phatsallylee ! Take your time! 4y
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Kappadeemom
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Finishing this today for #lpmbc! It‘s weird but I ended up liking it!

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BookishBelle
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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I finished this #LMPBC #groupw book last night. I spent a fair amount of time confused but once I got into it, I really enjoyed it! @phatsallylee @Victoriahoperose @Kappadeemom I‘m planning to get this in the mail soon. I have not figured out how to set up the postage online so I may end up at the post office. 😷

BookishBelle @Kappadeemom I put this in the mail for you today. It should be there by Saturday. 5y
Kappadeemom @BookishBelle Hi Amy, I have not received this book. Do you have a tracking number? 5y
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BookishBelle
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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@phatsallylee I got the #lmpbc book you sent along with your sweet card! To answer your question, we were supposed to get married yesterday but ended up moving our wedding to October. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Looking forward to reading this one! @Kappadeemom @Victoriahoperose

Victoriahoperose So sorry to hear about your wedding! That‘s such a bummer. I am glad you could reschedule! Sending you lots of love 💕 5y
phatsallylee I'm sorry to hear about the delay. no one could have predicted what we are currently experiencing. Stay safe! 5y
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bookishnerd
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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#bookreport

Graphic Novel Week! I read Volume 2 to 6 of Paper Girls. It was my series for the month and I was determined to get it done. I read Giant Days Volume 12. Caught up in that series for now! Then, I read Lumberjanes Volume 1 to 3.

The only novel I finished was Company Town.

I am currently reading A Lesson in Secrets and Starsight (audio).

(Picture is my Disco Dog. lol)

Cinfhen 🕺🕺🏼🕺🏾 5y
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bookishnerd
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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#weekendreads @rachelsbrittain

1. Starsight by Brandon Sanderson (audio), Company Town by Madeline Ashby, and Lesson in Secrets by Jacqueline Winspear.
2. The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep. But the Paper Girls series by Brian K. Vaughan is also a great series overall.
3. Beat up books. I do buy used so it happens, but I try not to crack my spines or bend pages. Sometimes books come in the mail already bent and it drives me nuts.

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bookishnerd
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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#weeklyforecast

I picked Company Town in Bookopoly. I need to finish A Lesson in Secrets. I have Volume 12 of Giant Days. And, I want to finish my read through of Paper Girls.

On the audio front, I have Starsight by Brandon Sanderson loaded and ready.

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suzisteffen
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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For the second time this weekend, I feel very WHAT THE HELL HAPPENED IN THE FINAL SECTION OF THE BOOK? What? The? Hell? Happened? How was *that* the bad guy? How did [people] survive [thing]? What the hell with the elevator shaft? WHAT THE HELL WITH THE WHITE ROOM? Was this all a dream? This is WILD. But good! But I am really glad we‘ve got a book group session so I can talk about it with other people.

suzisteffen Also this book is dedicated to the missing and murdered Indigenous women of Canada, and it touches on serial murders of sex workers - important topics but ones I feel the book ends up giving short shrift to in the end. 6y
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suzisteffen
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Starting this one for my #sciencefiction book group. Dystopian future where towns are owned by, uh, companies (this town is a former oil rig, and the company is building a nuclear reactor beneath it, and that is most of the plot info I have so far). Protagonist is a kickass young woman with a birth defect, an attitude, and a lot of street smarts.

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KarynGood
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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5 ⭐️s! I really enjoyed this book! I loved the protagonist and the setting and the author‘s idea of a bioengineered future. Reading it has made me want to read more science fiction. Would definitely recommend! #january2019 #canadareads #readthenorth

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KarynGood
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Went to the bookstore and bought some books! 😀 I‘m not one to have a towering TBR pile. Having too many unread books around makes me anxious about not getting them read. 🤷‍♀️ But I added to it anyway.

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KarynGood
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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I‘m such a slow reader! And I have a feeling this one is going to take me a bit longer to get through, but still enjoying it. Also, the conversations going on around me are super distracting. But very interesting! 😂 #eavesdropping #thethingsyoulearn

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KarynGood
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Bought this read at a book sale last summer. It‘s totally outside my comfort zone which is why it‘s taken me awhile to attempt it. But I‘m really enjoying it, even though it took me a bit to settle into her writing style. #january2019 #tookachanceon #canadareads

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BookishTrish
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Work day 16 of 16 and all I can think about is bedtime. But first kids‘ dentist and late night at work. Ugh. The silver lining is someone gave me this book and said it sounded like my thing. I‘m going in!

danibolahood I'm looking forward to hearing what you think about it. It's one of those that I KNOW I really wanted to read when I got it but now I keep passing it over when I'm looking for my next book. 6y
danibolahood Also major props to you for doing 16 work days in a row. I'd never make it! 6y
BookishTrish @danibolahood THaNK YOU! I‘m four hours from done and shall not move from my (home) Library tomorrow. 6y
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Creadnorthey
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Mehso-so

I was sold on this book yesterday saving the last part, November, for today. And unfortunately the spell was broken. The tie together is neat but a bit too neat without any previous threads to provide clues to the mystery that is built. Ashby brings in too much, too late- inter-dimensionality is just over the top and unnecessary. That said this is almost a “pick”, but, and I rarely believe this about a book, it could have used more story.

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Creadnorthey
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Enjoying this super read! Been a while since I‘ve spent all day reading a book... well at least a good week or two...

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panoramix
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Lightyear, by Didrik Hallstrøm is a short piece of #scifi touching on climate change, interstellar travel and mental health. It isn't perfect, and I have questions, but it's by far the best Norwegian-language sci-fi I've read in a long time.

(How do I add books that aren't in the database? Added another book to post this.)

panoramix Asked the librarians nicely to add it. 7y
RaimeyGallant You figured it out! Yea! And welcome to Litsy! #LitsyWelcomeWagon Some of us put together Litsy tips to help new Littens navigate the site. It's the link in my bio on my page in case you need it. Or if you prefer how-to videos, @chelleo just put some together. 7y
panoramix @RaimeyGallant Thanks for the welcome. Is there a notification or something when and if the librarians add my suggestion? 7y
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RaimeyGallant I haven't received any. It'd be great if there were! 7y
DivaDiane Hi! Welcome to Litsy! I don‘t think they notify you. Although it‘d be nice if they would. I‘ve read some pretty obscure poetry collections (SF!) that aren‘t in the database... 7y
DebinHawaii Welcome to Litsy!!🎉📚👍😀Hope you enjoy it here! 7y
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Nitpickyabouttrains
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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I really liked this story which was part about a woman who acts as a body guard and part mystery. Really cool and unique setting.

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Decalino
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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This book hooked me from the start. Hwa works as a bodyguard in a town that has just come under new ownership. She is one of the few residents without augmentation, a fact that leads to a job opportunity with the new owners. This dark, fascinating story took twists and turns I did not see coming, and I will be thinking about that wild conclusion for a long time.

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NerdyRev
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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In honor of Canada Day Saturday and thanks to @Jenshootsweddings , I read this gem. Picked as one of Canada Reads, this is one to not judge a book by its cover. This is about espionage, murder, fighting, and a plot to kill a wealthy heir. In a world filled with augmented people, Hwa is unique because she has no augs. What a great action filled book. I liked it better than this year's CR winner- Fifteen Dogs

NerdyRev Happy Canada Day, BTW! 7y
vivastory I've been meaning to read this one 7y
NerdyRev @vivastory I put it off because the cover looked pretty bad. It was a kick booty story though. Not at all what I thought. 7y
CouronneDhiver 🇨🇦🎉🇨🇦🎉🇨🇦🎉 7y
Jenshootsweddings Oooooooh great review! ❤️🇨🇦 I haven't read it myself yet, but I didn't care much for Fifteen Dogs either. 7y
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vanesdigregorio
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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A finalist for Canada Reads, this book set in a world of enhancements and body modifications follows Hwa, a young woman with an ugly birthmark and no enhancements, who makes her living as a bodyguard to sex workers. When she's hired to protect the heir of the family who owns the town she lives in, sex workers start dying. A great SF murder mystery.

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TheKidUpstairs
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Mehso-so

I REALLY wanted to be able to give this book a pick. I loved the first 3/4 of the book. But then it kind of went off the rails for me. I found myself dissatisfied with the ending, a rather deus-ex-machina-esque conclusion to what had been an interesting story. I think it deserved more. 😔

JazzFeathers I completely agree. Didn't like the end at all. Too perfect and clean. I also found te events leasing to the ending to be kind of illogical 7y
Hooked_on_books It's so frustrating when you're loving a book and then it veers off. Ugh! 7y
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TheKidUpstairs
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Hubby and kidlets all feeling a bit under the weather and in bed early. So it's the perfect time to start a new read. Now for the tough decision: beer or wine?

#currentlyreading

LeahBergen Hmm... I like them both. Maybe toss a coin? 😉 8y
mcipher Beer over wine any day!! 🍻 8y
Redwritinghood Wine gets my vote! 8y
TheKidUpstairs @LeahBergen @mcipher @Redwritinghood In the end, beer won the internal debate. I figured I poured enough beers for other people at work today, it was time to pour one for myself. Cheers! 🍻🍻🍻 8y
mcipher Enjoy! 8y
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AlaMich
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Mehso-so

So Madeline Ashby is a Canadian writer and futurist. I don't know what being a career futurist entails exactly, but there were a lot of really interesting ideas in this science fiction/mystery. Nano-machines and programmable tissue...There was also a bad-ass female protagonist. As a mystery, however, not so much. So many loose ends and red herrings and a beyond-implausible ending. #sciencefiction #canadianauthors #yourmysteryneedswork

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DeweysReadathon
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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What are you reading right now? I'm reading a book set way in the future while my bf watches a show set hundreds of years in the past. 📚❤️ #readathon - @Liberty

phatsallylee Back to working on my main read but have a shortie on deck for the next hour 8y
GemintheRough Love Company Town. Her vN series is great too! I'm on my way back from the gym to continue Defy the Stars ✨ 8y
Dorianna Just finished one book and about to start 8y
StephanieMarie Great book! I was rooting for it to win Canada Reads competiton 8y
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AshHisson
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Pickpick

Loved this! I can't wait to read it again.

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BookishTrish
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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My reading view #bathandbooks

Zelma Kitten belly! 😻 (that is immediately what my brain exclaimed) (edited) 8y
CherylDeFranceschi ❤️😻 8y
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BookishTrish
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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What should I read next?!??

Kosugi I'm halfway through "Company Town" right now. So, that one ;) 8y
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Jilljemmett
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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#aprilbookshowers Muscles. The main character in this story Hwa is a body guard. She is strong and knows how to work her muscles!

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StaceyKondla
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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My Book Outlet order arrived 🎉🎉😂😂

Lacythebookworm Yay! So many books! 📚😍 8y
LectricSheep Book Outlet best outlet. ❤️ 8y
LeahBergen 😂👏🏻👏🏻 8y
CherylDeFranceschi Awesome! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
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Love2Read1
Company Town | Madeline Ashby

Company Town.... Ugh! Is it me? Not getting it. Please tell me why you liked this book.

BookishTrish Just starting this one. I'll keep you posted. 8y
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DaveNeufeld
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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I had a hard time caring about pretty much any character in Company Town, and felt that the SCI behind the FI was poorly explained, or not at all. A really intriguing premise that fell entirely flat for me, sadly I have to give it a thumbs down.

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BookishTrish
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Possible #AprilTBR plus

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WolsakandWynn
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Love that Company Town is still in the running for CBC's Canada Reads! #canadareads #canadianauthor #scifi #breakfastread

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lisakoby
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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I'm starting with Company Town for #canadareads. Excuse the gratuitous knitting shot. I love this contest and look forward to it every year...next up is The Break. #iamcanadian #booknerd #knittersoflitsy

RadicalReader @lisakoby what's this book about? 8y
lisakoby @RadicalReader It's set on a futuristic oil rig city, and told from the perspective of a woman named Go Jung-Hwa, who's basically a bodyguard. She gets the job of a lifetime, and then there's a murder...it looks so good. Only a chapter in and I'm liking it. 8y
JacqMac I'm about to watch the first episode. I think they should do this more then once a year. 8y
lisakoby @JacqMac Agreed! 😊 8y
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StephanieMarie
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Let's go #canadareads ! Contenders are Company Town, The Break, Fifteen Dogs, The Right to be Cold, and Nostalgia

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dixi_e
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dixi_e
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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I finally have it in my hands! It's 5/5 for #CanadaReads. #currentlyreading

StephanieMarie You're so lucky I only got 3/5, too long of a wait for the library books :( 8y
BookishTrish @StephanieMarie I hear you! I read two and am starting on 3 today. 8y
dixi_e Was SUPER disappointed with the whole thing (Canada Reads). Neither of the final two deserved to be there and the premise, picking the book that best answered this year's question, was ignored in leu of winning at all costs. (edited) 8y
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dixi_e
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This means for the FIRST TIME EVER I'll be able to read all of the contenders for #CanadaReads. 😀 #libraryforthewin

#whyistherenoredfortextcolours ??🖍🤔

dixi_e Noooooooooo! I went to pick it up and it was MIA 😭 8y
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Kosugi
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Just picked my fifth round of our #tenatatime tbr project! When you have this many stacks of unread books, this really keeps you focused.

Suet624 Great idea. 8y
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reneelyons
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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An interesting concept, but not the best execution. This book suffered from an identity crisis, but I didn't enjoy some of its social commentary.

Full review: https://reneereadsbooks.wordpress.com/2017/03/08/book-review-canada-reads-2-comp...

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MargoPinh2o
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Very interesting protagonist- and the premise of bio-engineering, urban development and AI is spell binding. Near future sci-fi kind of thing. Page turner - ending a bit much but well worth the read

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Shay
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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Getting a head start on the #CanadaReads 2017 short list.

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DaveNeufeld
Company Town | Madeline Ashby
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It's time I got back
It's time I got back
And I don't even know how I got off the track