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. Hon, that bam we're looking at was torn down years back;
that's just its ghost. This is bad."
"Don't fret about it, Richard. In timejumping it feels that way, the first
time you get involved with a loop."
"I've already lived through 2177! I don't like paradoxes."
"Richard, treat it just as you would any other place, any other time. No
one else will notice the paradox, so ignore it yourself. The chance of being
recognized when you are living paradoxically is zero for any era outside your
own normal lifetime... but usually only one in a million even if you timejump
close to home. You left this area quite young, did you not?"
"I was seventeen: 2150."
"So forget it. You can't be recognized."
"Uncle Jock will know me. I've been back to see him a number of times.
Although not recently. Unless you count our quick visit three days ago."
"He won't remember our visit three days ago-"
"He won't, huh? Sure, he's a hundred and sixteen years old. Or will be
eleven years from now. But he's not senile."
"You're right; he's certainly not senile. And Uncle Jock is used to time
loops. As you have guessed by now, he's in the Corps and quite senior. In fact
he's the major stationkeeper for North America in time line three. Last night's
evacuation of THQ was made to this station. Didn't you realize that?"
"Hazel, I didn't even touch second
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