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The Great Abandonment.

What happens to the natural world when people disappear?

By Tess McClure, read by Sarah Lyonim

Abandonment, when it came, crept in from the outskirts.

Homes at the edge of town were first to go. Then the peripheral grocery stores.

It moved inward, slow, but inexorable. The petrol station closed and creeper vines climbed

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