‘If people like you, you can manipulate them to do whatever you want them to do!’ I blinked. ‘So you don’t really want people to like you?’ I asked. ‘Oh no,’ he shrugged. ‘I’m giving you my deepest secrets here, Jon!’ ‘When you said, “If people don’t like me it hurts me,” you don’t mean it hurts your feelings. You mean it hurts your status?’ ‘Yes, exactly.’ ‘How does it work?’ I asked. ‘How do you make people like you?’ ‘Ah, OK,’ he said. ‘ Watch this . . .’ He turned to the elderly inmate whose children and grandchildren had just left. ‘You have a lovely family!’ he called to him. The man’s
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