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Used Up: the Quay, the Kiln, the Wall, and the Cost of Mending
Every trade in this town damages the people who do it and the damage is specific enough to be catalogued, which the bone-setters have done informally for generations. The quay makes backs and crushed hands. The ropewalk makes hands and shoulders, the hemp taking the skin off them in the first month and leaving them rough for the rest of a working life. The washing makes hands, backs and chests. The oast, inland, makes chests. The wall on the marsh makes backs. None of it is sudden and all of it is cumulative.
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