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It's sure a bit of a drag that there's no working cell tower here now. No more 5 minute hikes up the hill to get a signal. Now I got to catch a ride into town to upload my files and stuff. You can scrounge some open wifi in the alley behind the old Regal, most days.
Although I just learned yesterday that Hat's got some old computer hooked up to her radio set again. And all I got to do is leave her my files and my password and she'll upload them somehow over that. She just sips her tea and watches the numbers go up. It's like 110 bods, is what she told me. I don't know what exactly that means, except it's sloooooow. But it's okay, I don't usually write too long.
I was away only a few months, but old Hat somehow seems a lot older now. It's like the hardness is gone, and she's just not kicking ass like before. I think it really took it out of her, losing her grand-daughter and her daughter in such short succession, and in that way. Maybe it's a small mercy she wasn't there to see what happened to Ellie like I was. That stuff sticks with you. It's the crunching sound, that I still can't get out of my head even now.