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Speaker 1: Please, in your old words to the ladies and gentlemen

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Speaker 1: at the court, describe what occurred.

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Speaker 2: On that date.

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Speaker 3: A young woman walked up to me and asked if

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Speaker 3: I would like to date her. I said that all depends,

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Speaker 3: would you like to day me? And she smiled and

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Speaker 1: Would Let me interrupt you again, now for a minute.

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Speaker 1: What does a word date mean to you? It means

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Speaker 1: certain things to me. But what was meant by the

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Speaker 1: word date?

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Speaker 3: Well, I think a date would mean to me whate

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Speaker 3: would mean to most people, like you would ask a

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Speaker 3: girl out on a date. But I think in this case,

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Speaker 3: she just wanted to make sure, wanted to know if

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Speaker 3: I wanted to take her into the back room.

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Speaker 1: All right, please continue.

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Speaker 3: We entered a very small room. It had a bed

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Speaker 3: against a wall which had a leopard skin type bed

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Speaker 3: As you walked into the room, there was a pan

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Speaker 3: of water and soap and a washcloth lying on the table.

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Speaker 3: She then told me to take my clothes off and

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Speaker 3: she would return it in a minute. I took my

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Speaker 3: and in approximately three to four minutes, she returned and

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Speaker 3: asked me why I had not take my clothes off.

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Speaker 3: not been out with such a good looking woman and

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Speaker 3: She took her brawl off and hung it on a

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Speaker 3: nail on the other side of room, and insisted that

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Speaker 3: I hurry as time was running short. She picked up

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Speaker 3: a pan of water and the soap and the washcloth

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Speaker 3: asked her what is she going to do, and she said,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to wash you off because I can't take

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Speaker 3: any chances on getting any bugs. At this time. I

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Speaker 3: reached in my boot and took a small revolver out

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Speaker 2: There's a couple of them builders from South Hill at

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Speaker 2: the door. Janet called out to Doorman Roy as she

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Speaker 2: peered through the blinds. Connie Is dealt with them already,

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Speaker 2: let him in behind the locked door. Tommy worked in

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Speaker 2: the office. He'd been doing that a lot lately, locking

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Speaker 2: doors he'd promised he'd be more open with her, more transparent,

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Speaker 2: another promise broken. Like many women before her and many

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Speaker 2: to follow, She'd convinced herself that a marriage would heal

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Speaker 2: the cracks, would make Tommy feel solid, whole, present, like

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Speaker 2: he did in the early days. The early days, they

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Speaker 2: weren't so far back, now, were they?

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Speaker 4: A year?

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Speaker 2: Two? Years? Three? Howe had so much changed in this

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Speaker 2: short time. She said yes to his flirtations, yes to

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Speaker 2: his propositions, yes to many customers, yes to working the desk,

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Speaker 2: yes to being his wife. And yet the moment Tommy

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Speaker 2: had secured every yes Janet could provide, he looked away,

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Speaker 2: stared to law. Some of these other girls kept too

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Speaker 2: many doors locked, kept too many secrets, got too mad,

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Speaker 2: was too quick with punishment. Tommy had swagger. He could

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Speaker 2: convince a woman of almost anything. He could convince a

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Speaker 2: a fist, but stung like hell. Nonetheless, Janet peered through

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Speaker 2: the blinds again, Tommy, there's a van parked across the street.

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Speaker 2: Do you know who that might be? The closed office door, however,

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Speaker 2: shut her voice out entirely. Tommy continued on scribbling, in

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Speaker 2: his ledger undisturbed. Two customers entered the twenty nine, and

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Speaker 2: Roy checked them against their descriptions in the log book,

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Speaker 2: one middle aged, bald headed Madden Coveralls, one younger man

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Speaker 2: in dirty jeans and a blue work shirt. Back again,

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Speaker 2: I see, Roy said to them, and then he called

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Speaker 2: over his shoulder, Hey, Connie, your buddy's from South Hill

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Speaker 2: are here. Connie sashetted into the lobby. Ain't either of

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Speaker 2: y'all my boyfriend from last time, she told the two builders,

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Speaker 2: looking them up and down. But I bet one of

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Speaker 2: y'all would like to be my boyfriend this time. The

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Speaker 2: in a dirty mag. Well, that all depends. Baby, would

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Speaker 2: to gather me too? Interjected Coveralls. Yes to both questions.

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Speaker 2: Connie answered with a smile and gesture to the bar,

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Speaker 2: Of the three kittens seemed the only one clear headed.

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Speaker 2: Connie approached the bar. Buck Guy and Tanita rested their

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Speaker 2: a ring around her finger. Hmmm, why don't you come

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Speaker 2: would tearfully demand from Connie why she had chosen her

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Speaker 2: out of the three for this accursed gig, Connie would

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Speaker 2: plead the others were too fucked up. I had no choice.

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Speaker 2: Not here for Sodi pop this time, Connie prodded the men. Now,

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Speaker 2: as the party of four settled in at the booth,

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Speaker 2: Not this time, Connie placed a cigarette between her lips

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Speaker 2: and leaned forward over the table, her cleavage on display.

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Speaker 2: Anybody got a light. Both men fulled matches from their

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Speaker 2: pockets in unison. Everyone at the table laughed. They were

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Speaker 2: hesitant last time they were here, Connie told Kitten, But

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Speaker 2: I think they're pretty eager now. She flashed a wide

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Speaker 2: smile at the two builders. Now, would y'all like to

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Speaker 2: have a little bit of fun? Well, that's what we

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Speaker 2: came for. Okay, who wants who? Then? Well, I'd like you,

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Speaker 2: Blue Shirt, answered Connie. Smiled, then turned to the other man,

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Speaker 2: and is my friend fine for you? She asked, Coveralls,

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Speaker 2: gesturing to Kitten, who disappointed her entirely by gazing still

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Speaker 2: at her lap, rotating that ring. Some hustle on this

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Speaker 2: broad kitten had bought herself this ring when she'd become

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Speaker 2: a mother. She'd wait forever if she waited for her

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Speaker 2: man to buy herring, to do her any kindness at all,

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Speaker 2: She wondered now where he was and where he had

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Speaker 2: taken their child. Well, I reckon, she's all right, Coveralls replied.

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Speaker 2: In that case, head on outside and meet us at

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Speaker 2: the back door. Well, last time I was here, I

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Speaker 2: think you just took my buddy down that hallway. Things

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Speaker 2: have changed since last time. The boss man thought it

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Speaker 2: was too easy to get to the goods, said we

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Speaker 2: needed an extra level of protection. Got it? So the

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Speaker 2: back door, the back door. We'll meet you there. Shuffling

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Speaker 2: through the dusty parking lot, kicking up rocks with their

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Speaker 2: steel toed work boots, Blue shirt asked Coveralls, you ready

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Speaker 2: for this? I am? Are you? I've been ready? They knocked.

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Speaker 2: Who is it? Connie cooed from behind the door. Your

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Speaker 2: friends from South Hill, of course, just got to double check.

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Speaker 2: From inside the buildings sounded the grown of metal against metal,

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Speaker 2: a lock turning. Finally, after minutes that felt like hours

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Speaker 2: to the two fellas, whose hearts pounded with anticipation. The

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Speaker 2: as meek as her name suggested. Once inside, Connie laboriously

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Speaker 2: lowered a steel bolt back across the door. Miss way,

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Speaker 2: that's too heavy for you, Blue shirt offered. No, no, no, no, no,

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Speaker 2: I ain't no one from the outside got a place

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Speaker 2: a fanger on this lock. Trying to keep out the

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Speaker 2: riff raff. Trying to keep in the riff raff, Blue

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Speaker 2: Shirt laughed, then looked to his friend, who was already

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Speaker 2: wrapping his arms around kitten. Follow us, Connie said, and

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Speaker 2: the women dispersed down the hallway, leading the men each

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Speaker 2: into their own tiny spaces. A single bed, a rickety

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Speaker 2: a nail for your shirt, a cracked porcelain wash basin

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Speaker 2: decorated with a fading print of roses. In Connie's room,

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Speaker 2: there was a notebook scrawled with a record of all

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Speaker 2: the places she'd worked, all the bosses she'd worked on

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Speaker 2: her the phone numbers and aliases of old allies should

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Speaker 2: she want to change her location. A girl like Connie

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Speaker 2: stayed on the move. A room and an establishment like

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Speaker 2: this one didn't provide for personalization, a photo of your mama,

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Speaker 2: your favorite novel on the bedside, soft sheets to ease

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Speaker 2: the weariness of a long day. No, this room was

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Speaker 2: away station, not a home, a place to calculate the

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Speaker 2: worth of your time and your body, and hope that

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Speaker 2: the hungry bastard before you didn't have a taste for negotiation.

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Speaker 2: Do not negotiate. Connie had worn Kitten earlier as she

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Speaker 2: educated her on the ways of the twenty nine and

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Speaker 2: if a customer causes you a single problem, just hit

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Speaker 2: the red button next to the door. Somebody up front

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Speaker 2: will help you. Once in the room, Kittens sat on

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Speaker 2: the bed Coveralls stood before her. It's twenty five for

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Speaker 2: a straight, thirty for a half and a half, and

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Speaker 2: thirty five for French, she said, never looking him in

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Speaker 2: the face. Them some exorbitant prices, ain't they. I don't

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Speaker 2: think so. How about that happened? Half for twenty five?

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Speaker 2: Can't do that, mister, fine, Let's just make it straight.

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Speaker 2: Then he pulled from his wallet a twenty and a ten.

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Speaker 2: She set the money carefully on the bedside table undress.

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Speaker 2: She told him, picking up the wash basin and heading

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Speaker 2: let's just do it straight, Blue Shirt decided after Connie

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Speaker 2: listed the options, Pulling from his wallet a twenty dollars bill,

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Speaker 2: he placed it in her hand. Fine by me, but

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Speaker 2: you're gonna wish you got the half and half. She

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Speaker 2: picked up a wash basin from the bedside table, porcelain

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Speaker 2: rimmed with gold. Take your clothes off, she told him,

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Speaker 2: and disappeared into the hallway. In the bathroom, under the

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Speaker 2: took turns filling up their bowls with warm water. The

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Speaker 2: best of luck, Connie said to Kitten. But kitten didn't

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Speaker 2: the heart. This was not fun for her. It was, however,

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Speaker 2: fun for Connie. Connie returned to her room, first, wash

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Speaker 2: Come here, she said, and set the sudsy basin on

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Speaker 2: the bedside table. What's that for? This is the Peter

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Speaker 2: Pany Square. Don't you know nothing? I can't risk catching

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Speaker 2: no bugs. I gotta wash you off. You're so beautiful,

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Speaker 2: he said, unbuttoning his blue shirt. I haven't been with

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Speaker 2: a beautiful woman in a long time. Thanks, Now, hurry up,

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Speaker 2: it's just well, this room is awful, hot miss, and

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Speaker 2: I really am kind of nervous. Hurry up, and I've

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Speaker 2: never done this kind of thing. That clock starts taking

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Speaker 2: the moment we get back here, buddy, Blue Collar unbuckled

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Speaker 2: his belt, dropped his pants around his thighs. Connie dipped

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Speaker 2: her hands. So what does the twenty get me? Blue collar,

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Speaker 2: asked Connie as she twisted his member upside down. Finishing

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Speaker 2: the inspection, she stood before him, untied her top, breasts

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Speaker 2: Fully nude. She opened her arms wide and told him

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Speaker 2: this you get this, blue shirt grinned. Just let me

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Speaker 2: get out of these boots. He pulled off his left boot,

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Speaker 2: then reached his hand inside, feeling around for something. What

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Speaker 2: are you doing? I told you, hurry up? Wristed deep

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Speaker 2: into his boot, he continued to dig around. What are

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Speaker 2: you doing? Two doors down? Kitten placed the wash basin

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Speaker 2: who stood before her in his underwear. Everything okay, she asked, sure,

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Speaker 2: but you're still in your boxers. Always something with these

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Speaker 2: mustered her patience and smiled up at him sweetly. Make

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Speaker 2: He had told Whitehead he couldn't pay what he was asking.

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Speaker 2: get us out of this, Tommy promised Janet. In his mind,

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Speaker 5: The way she popped that gum, The way she said yes,

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Speaker 2: said Sergeant Bradley. As the lobby filled with handcuffed women

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Speaker 2: In that book the chronicle of every man who'd ever

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Speaker 2: looked at Tommy and smiled. Looks like a whole lot

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