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A Figure Like That<br />

shore, whereas Jack was a senior electronic<br />

engineer who was building photoelectric<br />

solar panels across the archipelago. These<br />

they hoped, in a few years, will make the<br />

population completely sustainable without<br />

the outside world: as it took a couple of<br />

days to sail to the mainland and there was<br />

only one very light plane that only visited<br />

once a week.<br />

They talked through the afternoon until<br />

the burning orange sun was hovering<br />

above the horizon and they saw a figure –<br />

that wore long khaki shorts, an unbuttoned<br />

white shirt and brown sandals with a<br />

white, bright smile - walking towards them<br />

from the beach. He had a ruck sack on his<br />

back and a metal box attached to a handle<br />

which he was, clearly, struggling to drag up<br />

towards them.<br />

“Amani!!!” Jack cheered “Can we help?”<br />

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