another TPWC excerpt

...Though I tried to put it off for as long as possible, I soon realized that an encounter with these people was unavoidable, especially with Amanda on the prowl. I couldn’t keep my door closed to them for very long. Geography was partly to blame. Snowden stretches out only a couple of square miles, and subtracting both our property and the Nasserls’, there were precious few places for either party to blend into the background...