"I said I thought he was phenomenal. This had been my plan, to use the same word that he had used to describe my necklace at the fundraiser. He had lifted the heavy beads off my chest and said, 'This is phenomenal, where’d you get it?' and I said, 'From a vendor at the farmer’s market,' and then he used the beads to pull me toward him. 'Hey,' he said,'I like this, this is handy.'"

—The First Bad Man, page 6

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