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    Last Words
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    Last Words

    By Jackson Lear

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    Dear all paranoid Internet conspiracy websites: explain to me what the hell is going on in this world. Yesterday I went to bed and everything was fine.

    Now there are zombies.

    The US is bombing everything in sight, the dead are talking back to people, and every time I try to head home I seem to end up going farther away than when I started!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJackson Lear
    Release dateJul 24, 2017
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