Two strangers—a man and a woman—met one day at an ordinary well. Their conversation stuttered along in fits and starts with the odd feel of an out-of-range cell call: pauses and missed cues, awkward spaces between query and response. They needn't have spoken at all, but he broke the ice with a request it would have been impolite to ignore. "Give me a dr…
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