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A Survivalist Finds You

A long time ago you bothered him somehow. Since then he has bothered you back. You don’t know how or when you offended him. You must have said something. Always asking how you voted. Many times you told him you're sorry for whatever you said or did back then but it has done no good. He gets red in the face and starts shouting whenever he sees you. Finally you find a new job and move the family to another city. Things are peaceful. You forget about him. Thirty years later a knock on the door. He’s flown in from a cabin he's built in the woods. He’s a survivalist now, collects guns and says the world is under attack and you are an agent for the enemy. You have no time to leave a note with his name for the first-responders. You would have told them to find this man soon and put him away. Others like you are alive who have bothered him also. He’s taking planes all over America hoping to find them. Today he found you. Donal Mahoney

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