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alance. It yelped and then let itself be pulled along.
Halfway through the block Henry reached down,
rubbed the dog's head, and in a sweet, scratchy
singsong said, "Hey, baby, it's all right, you all right,
Night? You sorry-ass motherfucker, you all right?
Where is she, boy? You know where Chin went?
Thought you were going to watch out for her, you
cocksucker, okay now, it's all right, we'll find her, don't
you worry, you sorry-ass motherfucker, that's a boy,
Night."
In 1974, Chin Lam's father (an eagerly corrupt
petty bureaucrat) had chanced to do an army MP
named Victor Grabaski a substantial favor involving the
dismissal of certain potentially damaging legal charges
about the trading of American blue jeans for opium. By
chance, Victor Grabaski had been in a position (near a
helicopter) to return the favor a year later by shoving
the just-orphaned Chin Lam to the front of a mob, then
pulling her into the machine with him as it took off. She
was transported eventually to California and finally (still
in contact with Corporal Grabaski) to Connecticut,
where two relatives of hers were thought to have