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Matt Damon in the 2011 film, Contagion

At the start of this year, I was clearing out my writing room when I found a tattered piece of A-4 paper.

My terrible hand-writing was scribbled on both sides and when I looked at it more closely, I discovered that it was notes I had taken during my Post-Apocalyptic and Catastrophe Fiction class at university.