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And their perpetrators… They paid the ultimate price.

But this center is in the business of helping human women, and it wasn’t the moonshiners who hurt them, it was their mortal fathers, brothers, husbands, and mere roommates. Which once again proves the moonshiners’ claim to the right to rule this world.

Laurie finds another article and shows me a short video. It shows Margarita cutting up a huge watermelon with her own hand, handing out slices to the children and women, and taking the last slice for herself. When her lips touch the juicy scarlet flesh, I too hastily turn my chair toward the window.

How to “develop” this now.

There’s an investor meeting in half an hour, and all my soaps are suddenly and somehow very spotty and head much, much lower.

– Any instructions, Mr. Shad’Far? – Laurie rises – I hear the rustle of clothes and the light squeak of his new shoes. – Should we give some kind of reaction to all this?

Even if I wanted to – and I don’t want to – how could I do that? Nowhere on those flowers and candies is my name, and I’m sure Margo personally made sure there were no notes from me in them. By the way, there were exactly a hundred of them. I counted them, because I signed each one with my own hand like a donkey, and even made up my mind, trying to choose words and phrases without obvious repetitions. Where were my brains, when I thought that she would read each of them and appreciate my attempt to smooth out the unpleasant aftermath of my nocturnal visit?