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My name is Robert Thorne, though nobody has called me that in years. Everyone calls me Bobby, which sounds softer than it is, like a name you might give a dog. I was thirty-seven when I arrived in Blackwater Creek, West Virginia, with two suitcases, a stack of books, and a laptop. The town was a ghost. Population zero since 1987. The general store was rotting, the schoolhouse had no roof, and...
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