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                                    115%u201cGod%u2019s work?%u201d she asked.%u201cHe shook his head. We don%u2019t believe in God.%u201d%u201cI need to remove the loaves for cooling. We put them in that metal cupboard and lock the door. It%u2019s mouse-proof. I%u2019ll remove those stitches afterwards.%u201dDays turned into weeks, into months, into years. Kelly had two children, a boy and a girl. The small homestead farm grew into a commercial one and after the war, increased their wealth. They purchased more land and the woods. Their children grew up and helped with the farm. Houses were built for them as they each got married.Luke shared a lot with his son as the boy grew up, telling him that he must pass on all that he told him to his own son one day. Kelly died of liver disease in 1988, aged 68, and Luke, grieving her loss, died sixteen months later of a heart attack. Some said that he died of a broken heart. Their son had two children, both boys, and their daughter had two girls. All of them were built additional houses on the estate and everyone worked for the good of each other. True to his word, Luke%u2019s son handed down the information, which he in turn handed down to his two sons.It was 2024. Luke%u2019s two great grandsons were either side of thirty. They knew about the cloaked time machine, the password, biometrics and indeed if it weren%u2019t all myth, exactly how to use it. The world looked close to becoming embroiled in a global war. The end result could be the ever-feared nuclear holocaust.Four years later, the world was at war. Cities had been hit in all the western nations, the USA, China, Russia, Korea, Iran, India, and Canada. Although the strikes were ICBM s carrying non-nuclear explosives, it looked certain that one of the great powers would attempt The Time Traveller
                                
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