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Macklin Day is now friends with Nap Oleon

Macklin Day is now friends with Lucas West

Yeah, so maybe. Maybe, maybe.

Macklin had passed the River test, and West seemed to like the kid too.

They were both on board with my suggestion too, that we might actually need a sub’s perspective in the creation of our community. Otherwise, it was easy to forget things that felt foreign to the rest of us.

We just had to wait and see. Greer had been all in from the moment I’d called him to tell him about our idea, but he hadn’t been here in a while, and we wouldn’t be seeing him until October. Until then, I wasn’t making any decisions about who else might join us.

Same went for Lucian. I knew he wanted to start this community with us, but he was on the fence for work reasons. He worked a lot. He was busy climbing the career ladder.