Antarctica Quote by Jo-Ann Mapson

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“Glory sipped her second glass of red wine, impatient for the slight buzz that made her edges blur.”

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“Juniper laughed for real, but one of those fake smiles he considered a plague of the Caucasian race followed. If you’re sad, be sad,…

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“Women hoped harder than men, he thought, sometimes hard enough to change the outcome of things.”

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Sleep is just a good idea. I bow to the god caffeine.

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At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote,…

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