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@@ -10,6 +10,6 @@ For each person we managed to contact, we asked them a set of questions that Sed
 
 Truly official, as well. They had pulled some strings to leave it pinned to the top of several of the largest central feeds. Responses were already pouring in as more and more people woke to the realization that millions were missing. While Dry Grass assured us that such had been done in the past, none of us had ever seen such a thing before.
 
-"It is a part of the long peace that your lives have been so boring," she had said with a sigh. "Or was, at least were."
+"It is a part of the long peace that your lives are so boring," she had said with a sigh. "Or was, at least were."