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Gratitude. What a. ..what a difficult word. I'm having one of those days where it's a little bit hard to be grateful to be where I am, to be alive in this empty, endless existence. I keep thinking back to what Birdie said, what I think Birdie said, and how maybe there's a way to fix this, to get out of this, to get back, to make the right decision to to merge things. And there's just too many possibilities. There's too many roads to take that could be right. And I could spend the rest of eternity trying to find the right one. And I just, I don't know that I have the energy. But what you said, that idea that maybe someone else did something to give you the universe that you live in now, the one that's good and happy and full of people that you love. That's comforting. So thank you. And I, I hope whatever universe I left, whatever branching timeline I left behind in my wake, I hope it's good for someone.

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Got another morse code message so if this is you, I hope I translated it right. Though, by this point, I think I've got it down.

"Although this political and social timeline is bashing the guardrails, threatening to jump the tracks at every moment....

This timeline for me personally is better than I deserve. I'm not certain whether it's my wife, my kids, my broader family, or good friends - but someone has earned a forked instance of this universe that brings me joy on the regular, and for which I experience tremendous gratitude."

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Hey, Rosy. God, I can't believe how many of you there are out there. And how many of you have found my frequency enough to hear me, to hear each other, to respond? 

It makes me wonder, what is she doing? You know, what is my other self doing as she's not reaching out? Other selves, whatever. I mean, maybe this is the only universe in which I have a CB radio at all, but I doubt that. 

I'm sorry it's so cold where you are and that your body doesn't like it. But I have to say I'm jealous. Even if you're cold and hungry and snap at each other, I do want other people still. Where we are now is warm, maybe a little bit too warm, but I think it should cool down here in the next couple of weeks. We've been here...um, we've been here for a little while, we had..we had a bit of a- a- a scare, um, a couple of- of months ago and- and 

Well, it made us want to kind of hunker down somewhere that we could defend. Um, and we've been doing that and it's been okay. I mean, it's beautiful here, but. It doesn't really feel that safe. The world in general doesn't feel that safe. 

And it's not just Junior, either. I mean, he's still out there. Still looking, I think, but... I circled back. Um, that's what happened a couple months ago. I'd left something at one of the places we'd been staying at for about a week and we weren't that far. I figured it wouldn't hurt to Go back and grab it and when I got there someone else had been there. Someone else had clearly been following us. Maybe not enough to catch up to us, but enough to know where we were. I don't know if it's the transmissions or what, but there's someone out there. Whether it's Junior or someone else, I'm a little bit scared to ask. Or to wait. Or to say that I'll meet them somewhere because well, the world just doesn't feel safe.

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Hello Whiskey. You’re going to get sick of hearing my voice if this keeps up. Or… our voice, I guess? I’m not Red, nor am I Scarlet. Keeping on theme, you can call me Rosy. Not like the flower, but like when your cheeks get rosy in the cold. We don’t have any more roses. Not here, anyway. They’d get smothered under all this snow. I hope it’s warmer where you are. I mean it would have to be, your car wouldn’t work if it was this cold. That’s why we have to walk everywhere. Well, snowshoe. And not… ‘we’. My group does the walking. I stay and mind the fire, while they go out and hunt, forage, chop wood. I get… I think Doc called it ‘Cold-induced… Brontospasms? I don’t think that’s right, but it’s close. My lungs don’t work well in the cold. Which is… inconvenient to say the least. The journey here was… rough. But because of that, it means I’m almost always the one to stay behind and tend to the fire. Plus Walt really doesn’t trust me with an axe with my missing fingers. Frostbite’s a bitch.

I don’t mind staying behind. It’s… actually kind of nice, having the place to myself, every now and then. It’s funny, I left an empty bunker six years ago to try and find people, and I succeeded… but there are still some times that I… miss the solitude. We’re all over each other here, have to sleep huddled up for warmth. You always wake up in someone else’s armpit. And they’re loud. The snoring, the way they laugh, the way they argue. We used to listen to your broadcasts when they were more regular, and I think that was the only time of day that everyone was quiet. All listening to you. It was… it was really nice. Those nights didn’t feel as cold. You brought warmth to our little group.

I miss that. I know you… you wanted your life to be your own again, to not be married to a radio, I get that. I still miss it, that’s all. Without you, we’ve had to resort to other methods of entertainment, which… well, I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to play Crazy Eights with a few missing digits, but… anyway. Sometimes Xue reads for us, but a lot of the guys don’t have the patience for it. And they get sick of hearing the same stories over and over. We’ve got limited books.

It isn’t perfect, here, I won’t lie. We’re cold, and we’re hungry. And we snap at each other a lot. But… we’re other people. And if you have a hunger for that… well, you can always come and find us. I don’t know our exact location, just the rough journey I took here, some of the place names. Erie. Sunflower. Newcastle. Four Corners. Just… keep going north until you find a whole lot of nothing. That’s where I’ll be. Or… I am in my universe, at least. Hopefully if you head there, there’s something in yours, too. Just… remember to pack to your mittens.

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From Passerine

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Hey, Passerine, it's, it's really good to hear from you again. Um, I'm really, really sorry about your loss. Well, I guess you and I have a mutual understanding club going on because I- I get you too. And, uh, thank you for the facts about yourself. I like the way that you described blue. I think I know exactly what color you mean and yeah, that's a good one.

And I hope whatever unknown you were heading into is ultimately really, really good. No matter how different it is.

And in the spirit of a trade for a trade, um, let's see, something you might not know about me already. I love Charleston Chews. I think they're the best candy. They're simple. They're perfect. They're so big, you know? You're not getting a candy bar that's...you're gonna eat in three bites. I haven't had a Charleston Chew in a while, but I love them.

I love the smell of dirt. Like, The soil that you can smell on a farm, that kind of, like, slightly metallic, slightly manure-y smell? Reminds me of driving with the windows down as a kid.

And I once got concussed falling out of a tree. And you might think, oh, well, you know, kids climb up trees all the time and get injured. But, um, I was seventeen So, a little bit more embarrassing. But thanks, Passerine, for sharing a bit about you. And I, I hope to hear more from you soon.

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From Passerine

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"Breaker breaker. This is Passerine calling back to Whiskey. You got the name right. I caught your response a little late, honestly just pure luck that I went to check my radio. I couldn't believe it when I heard you reading out my message. Felt a bit like a dream.

As someone who's lost people, I know how much apologies mean little. So, I'll just say I get it. For me, I recently lost a family member, and we were going through their clothes, trying to figure out what to keep and what to give away. It's amazing how much of someone you can find in their clothes, the colours they picked out, the brands they stick to. My person, she loved colour and animals. She volunteered with a whole bunch of different organisations and kept the polo shirts from each one. It was wonderful. And it hurt like hell, because I'd see a jacket I remembered her wearing, and I realised she'd never wear it again. She'd never add another patch to her jacket covered in all the places she'd went. And thinking about losing her just makes me think of all the people you stand to lose in life. Made me terrified about all the clothes and possessions I was going to have to go through in my life, all the memories I was going to have to fold and put into a box, like it was that easy,

To cut my ramble short, I understand you. And you are always welcome to respond in this way. The darkness is never as warm as you think it will be.

You mentioned not knowing things about me, and well, like you, I'm a little cautious about letting big details slip. But, I'm happy to make a little trade, to keep things fair.

My favourite colour is blue, specifically the way the ocean looks from a cliff on the beach on a sunny day. I once nearly concussed myself when ice-skating. In just two weeks, I'm upending my whole life and heading off into the unknown. Not a bad unknown, but just a different one. Maybe I'll be able to give you an update on that later. I love the sound of rain, and the waves, the scratch of a pencil when you're writing a story. I'm a writer, which is my only excuse for how long this message will probably be. My hair is short, and no one can agree on whether it's dark blonde or brown.

That's all I can think of for now. Thank you for your promise, I'm holding you to it. And I'll keep up my end over here. No more sinking into dark corners for me.

By the way, a passerine is actually a category of birds, passerines make up over half of all bird species. Big bird fan over here, but I also picked it as my name because it's the title of a song that wasn't yet released in your timeline.

This has been Passerine, out for now."

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To Kentucky.

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You know, I've heard a lot of really strange things listening into this radio. Funny things, sad things, scary things. When you open up your frequency to not only the rest of the world, but Every possible version of that world, well, you know, you're gonna hear some stuff. But I have to say, this bit about Kentucky, Delaware, these states moving... As you drive across the country and not moving with any kind of pattern, but just being in a different place than it was the last time you drove there, I, that is up there in terms of the strangest. I'm not sure I can say that I believe you. It feels rude to say that I don't, but like I said, I hear a lot of really crazy things on these airwaves. And usually you can tell, you know, if somebody's a total crackpot and you've sounded sober. But if you're not, if this is not just highway hypnosis, but Something helped along by some substance that you've taken or are maybe taking regularly? Um, well, you know, just let me know where you're getting it because sounds pretty cool to me.

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A message from Kentucky

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Hey there, Whiskey. Oh, a while ago my partner sent you a message that said, I still don't know where Kentucky is, and, well, you'll be glad to know, but we finally found it. It's beside Delaware. Let me start over. I've been driving these roads since before I was even tall enough to reach the pedals on my dad's big rig, so I knew where Kentucky was supposed to be. I knew where all the states were supposed to be. That they just aren't there anymore. I mean, they're still there, as in they still exist, but they're not where they're supposed to be. It's like... Someone picked up the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle and shoved them all back in different spots.

Kentucky was the first one we noticed. I was driving south out of Ohio, and as soon as we crossed the border, What should have been the border between Ohio and Kentucky. We found ourselves instead in Tennessee. Now, I chalked it up to a particularly dramatic case of highway hypnosis, or Up to the fact that the drive through Kentucky is just that unmemorable. But then it kept happening. I'd be going north out of Missouri and find myself in South Dakota. I'd head east out of Utah. And end up in Oregon. South from Michigan? I ended up in Maine. Making a map of the changes was pretty much useless, since the landscape seemed to keep shifting. Now, some things stayed consistent. Oklahoma stayed attached to Kansas, although maybe a little too attached. Took two weeks of driving in every direction before we finally got out.

California's still along the coast, and I guess the locals won't give up the beach for anything. I admit in half of Michigan never seems to move, but the Upper Peninsula wanders from time to time. Last month I found it in the middle of Montana. Don't. Asked me how I could tell the difference. And Nebraska? Well, I don't think anybody would notice if Nebraska moved anyway. So we're left to just wander the country, I guess. Kinda like you. Try to keep to a route and track where things are moving. See if there's any pattern. My better half is a knack for these kinds of things, but so far even they're stumped. So we just have to celebrate the small victories, I guess. This is a pretty good one. This morning, we finally found Kentucky. Like I said, it's beside Delaware. Problem is that now we have no idea where the fuck Delaware is.

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To Breaker Rum.

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Breaker Breaker, this is Whiskey calling out for Breaker Rum. I do see what you did there. Sorry if I, uh, didn't totally read your message right. I think, well, there was some static in the Morse code and... I'm not entirely sure I got everything right. But if you're from England, how the hell did you get here? Unless were you here before?

I mean... I guess I'm assuming that you're here because it sounds like you think that the dog that I saw along the highway was your dog, but if that were the case, surely I would have found you in all my looking.

It's kind of you to see me as tanned and gorgeous and happy and I guess I'm happy more than I'm not. Happy being relative. To, you know, everything else. I think, on the whole, I am as happy as I can be. Dogs would make me happier, definitely, but barring that, everything else that would ease my life, bring me joy, those things are a little farther out of reach and a lot out of my control, so.

If you really do think that the dog I saw was your dog, well, I don't know, should I come back to Kansas, try to find you? And your now three dogs? Seems kind of fruitless, but what else am I gonna do? Either way, I- I'm happy. I'm happy that you found your dog. And that you got some more. I hope the four of you are very happy together.

And I, I don't know what you meant about the Birdie stuff. I'm, honestly, I think I'm choosing to ignore it, um, because, well, there could be a lot of people out there, um, named Birdie and you spelled it differently in any case. Yeah, I'm just gonna assume that this whole thing is a weird coincidence, um, so that I don't go crazy trying to chase ghosts, uh, again, because... I, well, I've had enough of that.

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A message from Breaker Rum.

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Oh my God Whiskey thank you so much...I found my dog because of you. I swear I couldn't survive without him...I'm disabled and he does so much for me then one day he ran after a car - one car in 2 years and Brandy hates the bloke in it on sight and...I wanna go back to England...see if it's the same there...at least I know which berries are safe...mind you my crappy driving isn't an issue here. I only got your messages occasionally and really really staticky but suddenly the radio thing switched itself on loud like you were shouting about The Dog With Purpose and I knew...I knew...and now I can feel I'm living not just surviving especially as Brandy returned to me with 2 youngsters I swear are half wolf....so I'm protected right? Thing is you did something wrong. I didn't. Why do I get the wonky spine and extra pounds and you..you know...took a life and you get to be...I see you as tanned and gorgeous and happy and...but hey I have dogs so I'm the winner yes?

Tell Birdy I'm out here. Please. He knows why.

I don't know how you do your funny names call me Breaker Rum. See what I did there?

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