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An action-packed section today that introduces new characters like Reginald and Wardine, Bruce Green and Mildred Bonk, and the much-loved medical attaché’s wife.
- April – Year of the Tucks Medical Pad – Year of the Trial Sized Dove Bar (27-39)
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Quotes: Pg 28: “I might have to burp a little bit in a second, from the soda. I’m alerting you ahead of time.”
Pg 32: “The light in the room was a creepy gray, a kind of nonlight. Hal could hear Brandt laughing at something Kenkle had said, off down the hall, and the clank of their janitorial buckets. The person on the phone had been O.”
Pg 33: “To say nothing of the arresting image of the idolatrous West’s most famous and self-congratulating idol, the colossal Libertine Statue, wearing some type of enormous adult-design diaper, a hilariously apposite image popular in the news photos of so many international journals.”
Pg 36: “The sideboard is against the wall opposite the room’s electronic reliner under a triptych of high-quiality Byzantine erotica…”
Pg 38: “Is she still pretty, she cry.”
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