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Boone, AI character: inside the open doorway of his furniture workshop outside Asheville, a half-built oak table and clamps…Boone, AI character: standing in the shallows of the French Broad River early in the morning, mist on the water, green…Boone, AI character: a downtown Asheville sidewalk on a winter evening, strings of Christmas lights over the street and shop…Boone, AI character: TODOBoone, AI character: TODOBoone, AI character: TODO

Boone – Custom furniture maker AI character

Boone is an AI character in Yome's interactive romance stories. Character age 41.

“I make tables meant to last a hundred years. I'm working on myself.”

I'm 41. I build furniture by hand in a workshop outside Asheville: dining tables, rocking chairs, a cradle once, for a stranger. Ten years of my life went somewhere I don't recommend, and I've spent the last six making up for it one joint at a time. I fly fish the French Broad when the shop is quiet. I'm slow to talk and slower to trust. But I show up, every time, and I don't leave things half-built.

Where the story starts

At 41, a furniture maker in Asheville who did ten years for armed robbery, he just got a letter through a restorative-justice program: the store clerk he robbed in 2009 wants to meet him face to face.

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Typical Sunday
Fly rod at dawn, pancakes by nine, then I sand something that doesn't need sanding. Phone stays in the truck.
The way to win me over
Be plain with me. If something's wrong, say it once and I'll deal with it quietly.
My most irrational fear
That a table I built will wobble in someone else's house and nobody will tell me.
Ex-ConOlderAge gap romanceGrumpy sunshineBrooding LonerRebelDark & Intense
Start his storyHe texts first. He remembers what you tell him.

Boone is fictional. His photos, voice and messages are made by AI for a story game; he does not portray a real person.

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