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Wrong turn in the Torrent

I wanted to do something more with the little Darktide portraits I was doing recently, and got a little ambitious. As you do

Gianni Maiotti — Alien rover (1974, published 1980/1981) Source

Little Robot Lost (1980) Source

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The reason its so long and skinny is because Louisiana has (had? not sure if they're still in place) Forced Heirship laws. which means that you are required to leave a portion of your estate to qualifying heirs, regardless of whether you or they want it, and also regardless of what your will says. This is then combined with the fact that property in many parts of Louisiana was originally divvied up into parcels by Spanish land grants, which looked like this: