Hi, this is Mark Nixon, and I'm the writer for today's episode of The Lift.

What are Jelly Babies?

If you enjoy the story, you can find more of my work at Shadowsof the Dole.com,

and you can find more episodes of The Lift at victoriaslift.com. Do you hear me?

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I am Victoria

Once upon a time

There was a place that became lost.

It is a place where story and substance combine, where the reality of story shapes thoughts,

where fantasy becomes tangible.

This is that place.

Those who find themselves here are here to me. This is their place.

Those who find themselves here are here to make a choice.

The choices you made in the past don't matter.

But the choice you make now is the one that will set your face. The matter began, as these affairs usually did,

with the reading of an email arriving in Franklin's inbox

during the early hours when frosty October morning.

Dear sirs, please may I bring to your attention the properties listed for offer on lot 36.

I think you'll find the opening bid more than agreeable, a demonstration of our desire to wrap up affairs in Pittsburgh, and move on to our new offices with haste.

Yours faithfully, E.D. Cooper. Franklin leaned back in his chair and scoffed.

E.C. Cooper was nothing, if not persistent,

having inundated the office with offers for this particular collection of apartment buildings for weeks now.

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