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Aberglide

2- Aberglide

2 - Mirror Chapter, Blackwater bay- Kirk

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Nov 07, 2025
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Hi guys, I’m Kirk, this is my version of what happened on that day.

I first met Seb when I joined his team at ECHO, the climate change organization he was already working for in Darwent. He immediately struck me as the kind of guy I could get along with: a nerdy, bespectacled man with a great smile. It worked to his advantage that he was also cute, and his tight T-shirts revealed a lean, fit body. Like me he was in his early thirties. Within a few months, our friendship had taken an interesting turn when we started having sex with one other. But that’s for another chapter.

And then came the trip to Aberglide. I hadn’t seen him much other that winter: I had been sent to do fieldwork in the north, while Seb remained at the ECHO centre with the data team. He was seeing someone, and when we did get together, it was mostly at social events with other colleagues. By spring, his winter romance was well and truly over, so when the invitation to speak at the Aberglide Interna…

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