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“You ought to be interested, Emma, since your father plays the blues. We used you when everybody was alive. But they only had one customer. Destroy your records.

We’ve got a competitive intelligence subdepartment that monitors everyone who might want to sell us something or sell something that might compete with us. We even have a name for it. ”“The burning of the cities,” I said. “What’s waiting for you on the other side of the river?”“Hohenwald, Tennessee,” Michael said and sipped his root beer.