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Wild

Ghosts, snow and mountain ash

@meganholbeck

www.meganholbeck.com

The word 'bleak' seems made to describe Scotland in winter, when the wind sneaks in every crack, and dark clouds skim the ground. Add in being young, homesick, friendless, and living and working in a remote pub where locals come to perve and the other staff hate you on sight, and bleak quickly turns to dire.

I lasted three dark, cold, lonely months. I worked, read a lot of books, spent the

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