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They set their glasses aside and hunkered down into the warmth of the bed. “We’ll do what we have to do,” Hayes said. “I keep thinking about that global warming business. If these caps ever melt all the way, the world is going to have much bigger problems than flooded cities.”

“One day at a time,” Sharkey said.

And in each other’s arms, they did not feel the loneliness and solitude. They only felt each other and in the endless polar winter of the South Pole, that was enough.