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Coils

By paborama

Wed, 27 Feb 2019
  • 469 reads
 

Allowing the telephone handset to slowly unwind

As a budget alternative to Stranger Things

He didn't have Netflix, nor even the web:

It stood-in for the Eighties, this telephone spring 

 

Certificate PG
Poem
Two sets of Facts to Fit One Hypothesis
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