14/ so here's a wacky one: wife and I are both turned into 6 year olds ...in our current house / lives / etc. what to do? If social services gets a whiff of that ... we get sent off to foster care or something? WTF?https://twitter.com/Cary_Bleasdale/status/1482095177833586690 …
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15/ I suppose I call up
@NoLongerBennett or some other very clever lawyer friend of mine and work up some sort of ... God knows what ... cover story w a "nanny" or something?3 replies 0 retweets 23 likesShow this thread -
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16/ so, on the topic of "I travel back in time and then I lose my wife/kids" - I've thought of this. The problem with Replay and Rewrite: Loops in the Timescape https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/38531463-rewrite … is that they're hedonistic "This time I'd bang chicks like a drum!"https://twitter.com/shlevy/status/1482095515248570372 …
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17/ ...and it occurs to me that there is a story that is almost DESIGNED to be written by John C Wright which is a sort of retelling of the myth of Orpheus attempt to rescue his wife Eurydice from Hades. Our hero gets send back in time, he's 6 or 16 or whatever, he starts >>>
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18/ looking for his also-16-yr old wife, and either he finds or he doesn't (she's died, she doesn't exist, something happens), but even if he does find her, their children don't exist ...so now he has to solve the mystery of the timelines and the stranger who gave him the pill
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19/ ...in order to travel back through time and find his family not a novel I could write, but I'd read the heck out of it
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20/ In my envisioning, no, the universe stays 100% the same except wife and I turn into 6 year olds but...easier to set up a ruse than to explain to courts that magic exists, no? https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1482097186410278916 …
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21/ > 6 + 46 = 52
> In a typical year, how many things do you have to do that would allow someone to discover that you didn't look 50?
I drive twice a wk. Also, if we did lawn chores, etc as a 6 year old, neighbors might note "2 kids...no adults?"
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22/ right ... thus "the ruse that I'd ask a smart lawyer friend help me come up with" <pause> ...I hope you're not billing me for this... https://twitter.com/NoLongerBennett/status/1482099379997757441 …
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23/ so anyway, for the first decade or so, we need someone to drive me and wife around, get groceries, and serve as an adult in the house should anyone knock on the door
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24/ yeah, we collect the Ingroup bit by bithttps://twitter.com/bara/status/1482098889511485440 …
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John Barnes, probably not the one you thought @JohnBarnesSFReplying to @MorlockP @NoLongerBennettThey are also usually ameliorative: this time Id value my real friends/true love/real vocation, all that. But if you make genuinely different choices, how soon before your prior experience stops working?1 reply 0 retweets 5 likesShow this thread -
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26/ with a 6 year old liver and a 60 lb bodyweight, the whiskey I've already got in the house might be more than enough to last me 15 years https://twitter.com/zywiecPolska/status/1482100609469792256 …
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