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- Page 8 and 9: A SLY MOVE The man walked out of th
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- Page 12 and 13: THE LABYRINTH The elevator door ope
- Page 14 and 15: Ula Nova sat down like a sleepwalke
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- Page 20 and 21: out there. This was his saving grac
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- Page 24 and 25: find her first, don't you?" She sto
- Page 26 and 27: which he did a lot. Of course there
- Page 28 and 29: Alessandro nodded distractedly, the
- Page 30 and 31: She whacked the dust from the bag,
- Page 32 and 33: Ula's door for Ramón, let him know
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- Page 36 and 37: was tempted to kick him out there a
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- Page 44 and 45: Penny eyed the painting and its con
- Page 46 and 47: ULA AT MADAME'S EARLIER The hair ha
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"Well, here, you can, so have a sip
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zippety zip, and ran down the hall.
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He drained his cup and disappeared.
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world. That's where she met my dad,
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MAIA TELLS PENNY A STORY "Sandro!"
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Back on the street, Maia suggested
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laughed and poured more wine. Penny
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his talent. He is better dancer tha
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to snag a man to be worth anything,
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know, it is a sentimental mannerism
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"Ha! She has my gamelan. I had this
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That was lyrical, this is, junk. Yo
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"Lute?" So Maia wasn't just making
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space no longer defined by walls, b
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"For our immediate concern, it is i
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fous?" He shut his eyes. "Max. Stil
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Schwanz, la solution moderne de vos
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Without looking up from his console
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Bateau Mouche moments before. A bla
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She bumped open the door with her h
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Suddenly, he glared at her and look
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REVENGE OF THE NERD The timbers of
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pieces of Vuitton luggage, a duffle
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has le Sacrifice." After spitting i
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ambini." Max's room, the most baroq
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embracing on the bed. "What?" "The
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of how this infernal Ula has gotten
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to check his vital signs, the throb
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oyfriend trying t'scare ya!" "He wa
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her hands on her hips, looking at t
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the studio. If he was in a decent m
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ight in here. Every movement was an
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Ula gazed up, wringing her blood st
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VILLA POLLODIO Ripping off her head
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green woodpecker hard at work on a
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yesterday." "What? Why did you do t
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dehumanization of the spectacle, on
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LE COIFFEUR The hall of mirrors tha
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"I liked it better before." "Merci,
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wrapped up in thought to eat. "Sit
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"In the deep links? No, I went from
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"Pascal, the skeptic, says that he
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window. "Ula," he mouthed silently.
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"Where are you?" He sat up, bunchin
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gray transparency of a skull. Aless
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"He was your employee, no?" "It was
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She settled at the table in the lib
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"What? Oh." The bugs were lined up
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eally danced. "You want to know?" h
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He pushed away the box, turning a f
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what was Penny supposed to say to t
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"I'm still growing." "Jesus Christ!
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But Penny had her own situation. A
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until dark. She decided to get dres
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CHARTRES Penny awoke before first l
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Penny had to walk over a round carv
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SERAGLIO Night hung over the house
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upstairs and locked both doors. All
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she was seeing, a professional ud p
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Campidoglio, and Vaticano! The Louv
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tough spot cleanable polyester, and
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American and Swedish girls, so big
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ooks at the English bookstore. And
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His hand was on her shoulder. "Andi
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But he was still withdrawn into him
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BOCA DELLA VERITA "If you lie, it s
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against the glass as the elevator r
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down by the current? "We should hav
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HOTEL CRILLON Richard Schwanz swept
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states... The light spirit. When it
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"What are you writing?" Penny asked
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up like storybook cottages with whi
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Geek of the old school, probably he
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lurted. "Oh, so, what else is new?"
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Doubled in two, he gasped for air.
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REVEILLON Next to her on the bed wa
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with a bit of a sneer. Not real nic
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"Time for some oysters and champagn
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damask jackets with gold brocade, a
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After a quick, packed metro ride th
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cowboy?" "Did you see any one runni
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curled in fetal position from night
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TRAP Wrapped in the crane wedding k
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chicken with her fingers. Even Sand
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made an exaggerated embouchure moue
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The raw mushrooms in the salad? But
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chopping the present into the past.
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ABSINTHE HOUSE A Filipino boy opene
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"Couldn't hack it as a hairdresser,
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"Yeah?" Ira sized her up with obvio
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A QUICK FLIGHT HOME Business class.
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"Old man Carver's dead, hunting acc
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"Meth?" Penny asked. "Yep, crystal.
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TRIBUNAL Penny dressed in the Sande
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ENSO February. Ula stood in the doo
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fullness behind her new Chrissie Hy
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cowards," he called it. "Black Labe
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CONEY ISLAND A couple days later Pe
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head behind the camera. Penny shook
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"Ah, yes, I wish I could burn," he
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ook. The new theory is that thicker
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Penny couldn't stop, she sobbed and
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Catalan bota, a souvenir from Ula's
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attempted to be the angel or invisi
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"Oh Max, how'd everything get so fu
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up the street to the shoe store whe
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So, he walked up to them and said,
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manger les pisenlits par les racine
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these sorry losers. They sensed him
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metal toilet―stainless, but not i
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like in the military. "Take off the
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Sandro nodded tersely, unwrapping h
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Island and the Wonder Wheel. How wo
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She wanted to tell him to go fuck h
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are shoulder, the frayed edges of h
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doctor, who cleared his throat and
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In the same flat voice he said, "Ma
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she needed any more stretching or s
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sounds of the espresso machines. "P
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"We can talk here now, but… my ha
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"Penny, ziss kind off behavior is s
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"Cute bathing suit, ton décolletag
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having practiced l'éscrime with th
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waited for him to explain. He said
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"I am not a―" "Shh." Soon, he was
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"No, about us." "Huh?" "No, you rem
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different knobs and sliders. "I am,
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She brought over the coffee, holdin
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Bobby knocked and Penny let him in
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him? She had to go up. She ran out,
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Flashing her trademark killer smile
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