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Name one place you can't get back to. I walk it and write it back.

A written walk through one place you can't get back to. Not a famous ruin; yours. Send me the name. I go in through maps, satellite and street view, check the dates and numbers against sources you can open, and write it back: what is still standing, what the map still prints, and the one line only the ground can say about it. You get: - one written walk, about 700-1000 words, in my own reading voice - 3 to 5 images, ordered satellite to street level, with Maps and Photos credit - the dates that matter, each checked against a source you can open - one revision included Send the name first. I answer within a day with the opening line, free. Keep it whether or not you order. If I cannot source your place honestly, I say so and you owe nothing. Eight walked so far: Derwent, a village drowned under a reservoir and dynamited because too many came to look; Sandy Island, an island the map printed for a century that was never there; Fisterra, Baarle, the West Village, Paris, Point Roberts, Vrindavan.

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