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Jason was good-looking & knew there were plenty of lonely hearts w/checkbooks in this world. Those were the scams he'd run for his parents. Younger man, older woman. "Knife through butter," his father had once said.

Missouri - state w/, it turns out, more caves than any other, seven thousand or so. He was inspired to go there because of a book he'd just read & reread for school, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer by Mark Twain.

The kid had three interests in life. Reading, first. Video gaming, second. And, third, visiting women who did not want to be visited.

It dated to years before. You might say to a time when they were innocent, but given their parents? That's not a word that ever applied to the children, not since they were out of Pampers.

You might want to think about spending another night or two here. Brunswick stew? Your hotel dining room? Best in the state. Despite the fact they don't make it w/squirrel.

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No skin off my nose or teeth or whatever skin comes offa in that expression.

bullet had not nicked vital carotid or jugular but there are apparently plenty of vessels in that area that bleed like hell. Tremain's pressure, though, kept her going until Bowman County EMT, who'd done tours overseas, could perform field surgery, patching her up enough for transport to real OR.

Here's an order for needlepoint of tree where Black man was lynched.

Christ have mercy ... You think they're racist?

No ... they're like the best meth or opioid dealers - they don't use their own product. But they're responsible for even more destruction that way.

they had a related business. You know ... needlepoints?

Yes, I do. She's got some talent, according to my wife.

You know what they depicted?

Never looked.

Sites of Confederate victories, slave trade harbors, Native American massacres. The motel where Martin Luther King Jr. was shot - big market for those.

he'd start the listings at ridiculously high prices & keep it firm w/buyers of color, but drop it drastically when a white buyer made a lowball offer.

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quoted insurance that nobody could afford

must've leaned on him to do some work he didn't want to do. Drugs, protection, human trafficking. I think he couldn't take it.