The beginnings of A Record Year For Rainfall

A Record Year For Rainfall, like all my finished works, took several forms before reaching the current plot. I always wanted the story to in some way involve Bret, the main character and paparazzi, to break open a political scandal. In the beginning, though, the story would eventually climax in Bret taking the pictures and taking them to the press. The original idea was for Bret to not even be in Las Vegas at the outset. Here's a couple paragraphs from the first version of the first chapter:

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