The Miracles Episode 7

Nature vs progress

This story has a land developer trying to get the village to sign off on a land reclamation project. As the story progresses, he thinks his ex might be tempted to come back if the village is modernized. He has one strong opponent who refuses to sell. He doesn’t see one building as enough for the village and dares to ask what if land sold out from under them with no return as promised. He has just about got every signature when his daughter has a school project about beneficial insects. A frog is not an insect, but it is a local treasure living in the mandrake trees. He takes his daughter to the mandrakes and pollution and dumping has made the habitat a garbage site. The one frog he finds is dead and that gets him thinking.

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