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“And now he’s got to live with the guilt.” “Keller,” she said, “everybody’s got to live with something.”
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“Kiauchau,” he told Jenny, “was an area of two hundred square miles in southeast China. The Germans grabbed it in 1897, and then made arrangements to lease it from China.
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Keller. Who, in a manner of speaking, fixed people.
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“It’s a bomb-sniffing dog, you moron,” someone else said. “It’s cute, whatever it is,” a woman said. “We had one just like that when I was a kid,” a man said. “Dumber than dirt. Couldn’t find food in his dish.”
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“You hate to give back money.” “I do,” she said, “because once I have it in hand I think of it as my money, and giving it back is like spending it, and what am I getting for it? Well, in this case what we’re both getting is piece of mind, and you could say we’re paying for it with somebody else’s money.”