"'Is she gorgeous?'
'Will that impact your decision?'
'No.'
'Stunning.'
'What color hair?'
'Blond.'
I spit into a hanky. My globus had swollen in the night—I couldn’t swallow at all anymore.
'No, I haven’t decided.'"

—The First Bad Man, page 50

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