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He’d made his way through life alone and he’d see it through alone, not taking handouts, not trading on an old friendship. Maybe he was just a garden-variety neurotic and no doubt he’d hurt a lot of people to build the business that was now collapsing around him. Still, I had loved so infrequently I felt a debt to those whom I had, for the reprieve from solitude. It was the weight of what I owed that I felt

“Was it hard to become a lawyer?” “You mean, because I’m Mexican? You can’t let what other people think about you stop you from doing what you want to do.”

“Is there no change in paradise?”

“What are you talking about?”
“My mother,” he whispered. “My mother.”
WTF? 😳🤢

“Josh. Yeah. He’s my partner.”
“Why did he say that thing about me joining you guys?”
I studied his expression. He seemed neither particularly upset nor even especially embarrassed.
“He was joking, Ben.”
He considered this for a moment and in a low voice asked, “What if I had said yes?”
“Are you trying to tell me something?”
👀 Oh, apparently my guess was right. 😊

Sempre più torbida questa faccenda.
PS Elena mi sta abbondantemente sui cabasisi.

Bello complicato anche questo volume.
Peccato che questa volta la traduzione sia alquanto approssimativa.