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I hate supper with Mark and his girls. Tiffany kept trying to flirt with me, but I was mostly stuck in my own head.

I once again got a special plate hand delivered by Laura: a rich pastry made with a ton of butter “From the batch I made earlier this afternoon”. Laura promised she put something special in it, but I couldn’t tell despite eating it all with an appetite…

I didn’t eat the whole meal at my place, however. I actually sat with two other families: Jacob and Harold, the other pair of solar panel installers.

They sat next to each other with their wives around them.

I explained to them the big problem of excess solar panels and they were just as confused as Mark had been, and less interested in working in the mines. I did explain that my goal wasn’t to get them in the mines (even if it was), but rather to get them on something more productive. That they could dismantle the solar panels for weeks or months if they wished to keep that share for a little longer.

Jacob, the youngest, only had one wife, a pregnant 18 years old he had relatively recently married. He was the most encouraged with the change because, in his current share, he never met any women. He was already thinking of working with animals or a field to get a second wife.

Harold, on the other hand, was a lot less enthusiastic.  He had been doing this job for almost 10 years and had settled into a stable routine that even Erica, his second and youngest wife has not broken. Being only 19, she was still very energetic but not at the point of being irritating like Tiffany. All three women were reserved and somewhat shy like I had seen with most of the female girls in town. Was it our special vulnerability due to our nudity? Due to the polygamy? From a few testimonies, it appears more and more that women are married on their 18th birthday and can’t date prior to it, so I strongly suspected that most marriages didn’t really work other than at producing kids.

It’s Tancy who brought a solution to Harold’s hesitation. Tancy was 32, one of the older ladies. I really, really had to investigate why there weren’t that many older people. Something felt odd about that. I could see many women in their 40s, but not much older, and not many men in their forties.

Anyways, back to Tancy. She was a pig farmer. Someone had to do it… and Erica was also a pig farmer, at the same location. Tancy explained that most pig farms had at least one man since it’s really hard work. “You see, unlike cows and chicken, pigs don’t produce anything. No eggs, no milk we can use, nothing like that. So we need a lot of pigs and bring one back to the town every 3 days since there are 3 pig farms and we need one pig per day, and sometimes, two for special events.”

“Harold, imagine, you could work all day with your wives, wouldn’t that be amazing?”, I said, but it didn’t click in his mind.

“Tancy”, I asked,  “Is your farm secluded from others?”

“Pretty much… there is barley field on the other side of the tracks, but we barely see them during the day.”, she replied.

“Good, and do you get breaks, I mean, are there moments where you can just a little”.

Tancy was instantly on the defensive.

“It’s a full share, we both work hard.”

“I don’t doubt that at all! I went apple picking with Cassiopeia and we worked hard all day, breaking only a few minutes for lunch, but we still waited about an hour for the train. It’s not her fault, we did the share…”

It’s Erica who replied.

“Yes, we can sometimes talk and relax while the pigs are eating”

“So see Harold, if you did work with them, you could play with them… perhaps have sex at the farm!”

Tancy seemed outraged, but Erica was much more positive.

Harold ceded. “I’ll think about it…”, he replied.

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