to finish one on fracking etc. The agent from the publisher is getting impatient. I usually can write things quickly, but because of the combination of complex issues and writer's block, I have been struggling for the past 7 to 10 days.
I've been doing a epidemiological study in a small, upstate New York community. It is heavily polluted, primarily from a military-industrial plant that graced the town with four "super fund" sites. Rates of cancer, etc, are terribly high. By no coincidence, some of the toxins are the same ones used today in hydrofracking.
(My sister just called a few minutes ago; another friend died yesterday. I'm tired of calling hours and funerals. At the last one -- the second in a week -- a friend said, "Strange, it seems like half of the old gang isn't here today. Oh, that's right -- they're dead!"
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