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CTE Peacock

CTE Peacock is a former schoolteacher. She lives on the Delaware River, where bald eagles fly by and distract her from her writing.

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At the Station

They could have let her off with a warning. That's not what they did. The station was a madhouse, alive with noise, confusion, and air too thick to breathe. There was the press of hundreds of citizens desperate to leave the City in time. Handwritten signs read "Hold on to your…