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[When he finishes high school his mom gets him a ticket on the brand new Bullet Train. It goes 200 mph, and he rides it for hours.]<main|
(link:"He sees a vision of himself as its driver.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Tomlin can get an engineering degree or start working in the railroad industry right away.
[[Either way he brings the cat.]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032764896020009031/unknown.png">
[In his senior year Tomlin falls madly in love.]<main|
(link:"His name is Mort.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Mort has red hair and is studying to be a doctor. He is very tall and has a slouch, eats his Cup of Noodles cold.
(link:"Tomlin has maybe never felt so happy.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[Just before graduating, Tomlin gets offered a job as a junior Bullet Train engineer in the small, far away town of Porkshire. It's the chance of a lifetime.
[[But Mort can't go.]]]]]]]]
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[Tomlin is heartbroken, but he loves his new job.]<main|
(link:"He gets to work on Bullet Trains every day.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[He can hear them whooshing by from his apartment.
[[It helps him go to sleep.]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032764939410092155/unknown.png">
[Tomlin finds work at a small train station as a junior engineer. He and Mort move into an apartment together.]<main|
(link:"It has rats, but they're happy regardless.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Mort finds an engagement ring in his Cup of Noodles one night.
(link:"They get married in late spring.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[They adopt two kids, Michael and Bobbie, a boy and a girl.
[[It's wonderful, but a lot of work.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032770696700514345/unknown.png">
[The years go by. Tomlin gets his first grey hairs.]<main|
(link:"Mort gets married.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Work is lovely, but he still hasn't been made a train driver, and he's starting to get old.
[[Tomlin reconsiders his goals.]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756433965563974/unknown.png">
[For another decade he works at the railroad as a part time engineer. He's not up for any promotions, but he feels like he's started to get his life back.]<main|
(link:"He recognizes people around town.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[He joins a bocce ball league. He's quite good. He teaches a certification class in locomotive engineering.
(link:"Eventually he starts teaching the class full time.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[One of his students is especially gifted. Her name is Jesse.
[[Jesse thinks about nothing but trains.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756433965563974/unknown.png">
[It takes him ten more years. New kids show up from college every day.]<main|
(link:"But one day his moment comes.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[They promote him very simply, by a slip under his door.
[[It's the best day of his life.]]]]]
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[On Sundays he and Jesse watch the Bullet Trains come and go. Tomlin lectures on the inner workings of the machines as they pass.]<main|
(link:"Jesse takes notes.") [(replace:?main)[$t[ [[In the end, it was an extraordinarily gratifying life.]]]]]
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[When he's too old to work, engineers from the station still visit him at home.]<main|
(link:"He's able to answer all their questions.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[The station gives him unlimited rides.
(link:"He spends the last portion of his life looking out train windows.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[On one of those trips, while passing through some beautiful wheat fields, he closes his eyes.
[[The rocking of the train gently puts him to sleep.]]]]]]]]
[[He passes away with the smell of train exhaust filling his nose.]]
[[His cat is adopted by the station.]]
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[[He leaves his cat to Jesse.]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032770696700514345/unknown.png">
[Tomlin is picked to lead the design and production of a new engine. Mort has been given a senior position at his hospital.]<main|
(link:"They're rarely at home.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[After talking about it, they both agree.
[[Someone needs to stay home with the kids.]]]]]
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[Tomlin feels a little guilty, but Mort says he's happy to stay home.]<main|
(link:"They settle in to their new routine.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Tomlin gets promoted again at work. He gets busier.
(link:"The kids get older.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[A new Bullet Train is built and stationed locally. Tomlin is asked to be its driver. His heart leaps.
[[But it'd require constant travelling.]]]]]]]]
[[Mort organizes a simple, quiet funeral.]]
[[Michael adopts the cat.]]
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[They keep this up long into their old age, and spend an especially long time in Italy.]<main|
(link:"Mort is astounded by how complex and subtle the pasta is.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[One evening Tomlin gets a bad stomach bug.
[[It turns into something more serious.]]]]]
[[Tomlin spends his last few weeks surrounded by family.]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756378713989142/unknown.png">
[His kids are already teenagers. He doesn't want to be gone all the time.]<main|
(link:"He asks Mort for his advice.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Mort suggests that maybe he could wait to take the job until after the kids have moved out.
[[That's exactly what he does.]]]]]
[[Mort takes care of the funeral.]]
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[He spends his last few years before retirement driving the Bullet Train up and down the coast at unfathomable speeds.]<main|
(link:"On weekends Mort often joins him.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[ [[In the end, Tomlin got everything he wanted.]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756537460002936/unknown.png">
He and Mort move back into a small apartment, kind of like the one they started out in. But without the rats.
[[They spend many years with their grandkids.]]
[[Tomlin passes away at home, a Bullet Train driver surrounded by family.]]
[[And also takes care of the cat.]]
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[Tomlin is a year old when he gets his first toy train. It comes with a little plastic figurine for the train driver.]<main|
(link:"From this moment on, his fate is sealed.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[His mom takes him to watch the trains after church.
[[By the age of ten, he goes by himself.]]]]]
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[They don't take to it. But that's okay.]<main|
(link:"They like listening to him.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Michael loves math, and Bobbie is a great basketball player.
(link:"Tomlin couldn't be prouder.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[Mort retires a week after the kids leave for college. He and Tomlin buy one-way tickets to Europe and travel all over.
[[By train, of course.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756433965563974/unknown.png">
[Tomlin still stops by the station every now and then.]<main|
(link:"They're always happy to see him.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[It's a pleasure to watch his kids grow up. He introduces them to his taste in music, his taste in food.
[[But most of all, he shares his love of trains.]]]]]
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[Tomlin lives long enough to see Jesse get into an excellent engineering school. Sometimes he hears from Mort.]<main|
(link:"\"We're both crusty old men,\" Mort often writes.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[The hospital he's eventually transferred to has a view of the train station. It seems like everyone in Porkshire stops by to visit him, leaving him with a mound of flowers.
(link:"He sleeps all the time.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[He often dreams of trains.
But more often he dreams of Porkshire, Mort, his mom. He dreams about Jesse going to school.
[[There are engines running and birds chirping outside.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756487459713105/unknown.png">
[He spends the last fifteen years of his career driving up and down the coast in the fastest train known to man.]<main|
(link:"The world is a blur through his window.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Dreams from more than fifty years ago have finally paid off.
(link:"It feels like he's flying.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[(link:"And the train doesn't run late once.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[He retires with a big gold plaque on the station wall.
[["For unique and passionate service to the railroad industry."]]]]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032764855272362016/unknown.png">
[He works as a receptionist at a small stop for freight trains.]<main|
(link:"His boss is always eating cashews.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[The first time he asks for a cashew, he is promoted to junior engineer.
[[It's unclear if these things are related.]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1047637701966446732/image.png">
[They release him from the hospital. He finds a grassy hill overlooking some train tracks.]<main|
(link:"He sits there for a long time.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[He watches the trains pass.
(link:"He listens to the engines.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[He comes there every day for three months.
[[He sits there from morning until night.]]]]]]]]
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Tomlin thinks about the first time he ever rode a Bullet Train.
[[He loved its speed.]]An image captures itself in Tomlin's mind of a beautiful, organic train.
[[Something that would seem natural in a forest.]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1047637787370864640/image.png">
[His designs begin simple, just a few sketches for some gears. It quickly turns into work on a full engine.]<main|
(link:"His apartment becomes littered in papers.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[He has a low stress job at the front desk of the old train station.
(link:"He edits his designs before and after work.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[Tomlin shows a few sketches to his boss, who becomes so enamored that his mouth drops open.
[[A single cashew falls out.]]]]]]]]
[[Soul search]]
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[One morning, while working on an old engine, he injures his hand.]<main|
(link:"He's rushed to the hospital.")[(replace:?main)[$t[His hand never fully recovers.
(link:"Tomlin's become unfit for driving trains.")[(replace:?main) [$t[ [[For the first time in his life, he has no idea what to do.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032770696700514345/unknown.png">
[Tomlin's doctor is quite handsome and funny. He brings him Cup of Noodles every night.]<main|
(link:"Tomlin never gets his name.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[He returns to work, but doesn't feel very useful as an engineer.
[[He talks a lot to the receptionist.]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1047637701966446732/image.png">
[Her name is Priscilla. Priscilla knows even more about trains than he does. She likes to brag about it too.]<main|
(link:"They become great friends.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Priscilla suggests he become a conductor. He could punch tickets, ride the trains and talk to the passengers.
[[But Tomlin thinks it might be time for something new.]]]]]
[[Conductor]]
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[Tomlin approaches his boss with a big bowl of cashews.]<main|
(link:"He is given the position immediately.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[He enjoys the quietness of going up and down the coast, and he loves talking with the passengers.
(link:"They always have interesting stories to tell.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[Priscilla is soon promoted to junior engineer. They walk home together.
[[She's always covered in grease.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032764939410092155/unknown.png">
[Tomlin quits his job. He relaxes, enjoys the sun, goes on long bikerides.]<main|
(link:"He explores new parts of town.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[On one of these bikerides, he bumps into the handsome doctor from the hospital.
(link:"His name is Mort.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[Mort asks Tomlin if he would like to get dinner sometime. Tomlin nods.
[[They fall in love rather quickly.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756433965563974/unknown.png">
[After several years she's made driver of her very own train.]<main|
(link:"She requests to have Tomlin as her conductor.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[They can often be heard laughing hysterically from the driver's compartment.
(link:"Somehow the train remains punctual.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[It's nice to see the countryside with somebody else.
[[Especially since Priscilla drives extra fast.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756537460002936/unknown.png">
[Priscilla visits him every day.]<main|
(link:"They reminisce, sometimes for hours.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[ [[Tomlin passes away with very few regrets.]]]]]
[[She takes care of the cat.]]
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[They move in together. While Mort is at work Tomlin buys plastic trains on Ebay and fixes them up.]<main|
(link:"They turn out better than new.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Mort is impressed. He suggests Tomlin open up a toy store for refurbished trains.
(link:"Tomlin looks up, blinks.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[He finds a little spot on the outskirts of town, and opens "Tomlin's Toy Train Station."
[[Priscilla is his first employee.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756433965563974/unknown.png">
[They spend most of their time in the back room, giggling and working on plastic engines.]<main|
(link:"It's not long before business picks up.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[When Mort retires, he starts helping out around the store, even though he doesn't really know what he's doing.
[[Every day Tomlin's surrounded by family.]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756537460002936/unknown.png">
[He spends as much time as he can behind the counter, even when his legs get bad and he works from a wheelchair.]<main|
(link:"The store stays open for several generations.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[ [[Many of the younger customers will love trains for the rest of their lives.]]]]]
[[The whole town misses him.]]
[[Priscilla and Mort share custody of the cat.]]
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[After several years, his boss gets Tomlin some funding, which lets him focus completely on his engine.]<main|
(link:"He soon has a working prototype.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[But when they run a test, it doesn't go as fast as expected.
(link:"He revises it for several more years.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[The second prototype meets his expectations.
[[And the third one exceeds them by quite a bit.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756487459713105/unknown.png">
[By the time he retires, he's completely exhausted.]<main|
(link:"He's made one of the fastest train engines in the world.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[Riding it takes him back to when he was a kid.
(link:"Back to riding the Bullet Train for the very first time.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[ [[Tomlin leaves a small mark on the entire transportation industry.]]]]]]]]
[[He passes away feeling extremely fulfilled.]]
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[And then, on a day like any other, he has his epiphany. He can't drive trains.]<main|
(link:"But he could design them.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[ [[He knows exactly what needs to be improved for the future of railways.]]]]]He walks along creeks, sits in the shade of trees, and dreams about this train.
[[Its engine sounds clean, like rushing water.]]He spends days off from work in a little cafe, writing down ideas and sipping his macchiato. There's a park across the street.
[[He likes all the people lounging in the grass.]][Could delete this] ideas for the train sort of write themselves.
[[Tomlin is in no rush, and wants to make sure it's good.]]He shows his boss some designs. He says Tomlin could recieve funding for his work.
[[Tomlin accepts the compliment and forgets about it.]]He's having fun, just sorting everything out in his own head.
[[It's like being a kid, and playing with his toy trains.]]Years go by. The design process takes a lot longer than he anticipated, but he feels like they'll be done soon.
[[And they are.]]He brings the finished designs to his boss, who makes a few phone calls.
[[Funding is secured, and prototype construction is started the next week.]]It's weird, to see the train finished.
[[Something materialized straight from his dreams.]]It sounds exactly like he expected.
[[The engine runs as gracefully as he thought it would.]]It doesn't disturb the animals sleeping in the forest when it passes by.
[[And it's emissions are near zero.]]It might not be the fastest train in the world, but it runs quiet and smooth.
[[Tomlin has achieved something great.]]After spending a few years refining the design with a small team, he retires.
[[He moves into a little cabin in the woods.]][[It's right by the train tracks.]]He spends his last ten years breathing in fresh air, appreciating nature, and watching the train he built rush past once a day.
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(link:"They spend the rest of their careers working together.")[
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After they retire, they set up lawn chairs and heckle old coworkers.
(link:"People are usually glad to see them.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[
Tomlin starts to have a harder time getting down to the station as he gets older.
[[Soon he can't get out of bed.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1047637787370864640/image.png">
[After work he always walks to a cafe and sips a macchiato. There's a park across the street.]<main|
(link:"People are lazing about in the grass, talking.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[He wants his train to be a place of gathering, where strangers could meet each other and talk.
(link:"The best part of trains has always been the passengers.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[He imagines a train car with seats tilted slightly to face each other, and tables all around.
[[It's warmly lit.]]]]]]]]
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There's laughter behind him. A group of friends are walking by, talking animatedly about something.
[[A vague idea for a train sparks in his mind.]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756433965563974/unknown.png">
[After about a decade of planning, Tomlin asks his boss if he can use the body of an old train for a prototype.]<main|
(link:"His boss only requests that the train have free cashews.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[He spends over a decade piecing together his perfect train car. On many occasions he sleeps there.
(link:"It's quite cozy.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[His work starts to attract the interest of several train manufacturers.
[[They want to start production immediately.]]]]]]]]<img src="https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1030553713657528360/1032756537460002936/unknown.png">
[By the time he retires, there are eighteen active train cars using Tomlin's designs.]<main|
(link:"He rides them often.")[ (replace:?main)[$t[There's a sense of ease in those cars. People seem happy.
(link:"They talk to each other and laugh.")[ (replace:?main) [$t[As he reaches the end of his life, he's sent to the hospital.
[[His boss visits him often.]]]]]]]]
[[And he hears their happy voices as he passes away.]]
[[His boss takes care of the cat.]]
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[[At night, Tomlin thinks of all those smiling passengers.]]
[[He passes away quietly at home.]]
[[Priscilla is holding his hand.]]