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about that dildo, rape and her girlfriend Amber

sauntered into my mind as I looked back at her.

Carly then stood in the witness box with

her ironed white shirt looking as lesbian as her

fresh box like hair cut and pierced nose; all of

which reminded me Justin Bieber that day. No

song's would be sung and the chords within her

words would be cutting. “How did you know of

the defendant?” Cesare asked. “We lived in the

same house,” said Carly. "For a while." “How did

you feel about him?” said Cesare, before my

lawyer objected with the words: “I object!” just

like that. The objection as staunch as my desire

for the dust that emanated from his suit to

vanish. “For what? Overruled,” shrugged the

judge with a frustrated head shake, that looked as

if she thought: 'This is the second time I’ve had

to overrule you, are you some sort of amateur?'

Carly said, “Well, to be totally honest, we had our

differences, let’s just say that. I’m not gonna be

in court telling lies.” Listening to this I felt that

her American accent was nasally and jarring,

prompting me to think that I really had never had

an affinity for such an accent; it seemed idealistic,

maybe all the influence of movies, I reckoned.

The prosecutor asked Carly to describe some of

these points of differences and she said that she

found me “dubious” before pausing and then

adding: “He seemed like he was all lost, and just

like bad news.” “I object to that your honour, this

is not a Starbucks this is a court,” said Connor

half standing to talk. The judge just looked at my

lawyer in the silence and that was all she did for a

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