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Ok. That was a living (you know what I mean) nightmare! I HATE competing anyway and dragging myself through this with Esther...&, supposedly, SHE likes to compete! 😱

Some more specifics, though:

Question: why couldn’t Esther find her way, I wonder? Did panic cripple her sense of reality? Why her & not the other 2? What was gained seems clear enough, but not the how. Not that there has to be a clear answer, but I wondered.

“Would someone with a short-term memory disorder have an easier go in this purgatorial maze?” ❤️ loved this.

“…I was too tired to be excited about it. Emotions consume energy, and I didn’t have any of that”

—this shows wisdom and experience on the part of the writer.

Until Jackson starts pushing Deek up the ladder, it hadn’t registered he was the smaller of them. Geez I’m clueless. Rethinking my image of Jackson now!

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Yeah wow, so much fun stress in this one. I hesitate to say too much since I want to see what happens immediately after this, but what a fun bonding excursion for them all!

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