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And then one day they all come back outta the hills. All those folks that went up in there those years ago. They came back with their tents and their VW microbuses and all that hippie shit. We always figured they’d turn into some kind of cult and come back and try to kill us all in town. You know? That kind of thing. But they just came back down one day, and that skinny fellow, Lyle, who had been in charge in the first place, just shrugged and said, “Well, I guess it didn’t really work out.” And that was that.