“And how am I supposed to do that?” “Everyone in town likes you. All it took was one public sighting of me holding your hair back and a focus group is already using it as an example of why I’m not so bad, so I wanted to test out a theory and see whether hanging around you has a positive effect on my reputation.” She blinks once. Twice. Three times, and I still have no response. “What do you think?” I ask. “You want my honest opinion?” “Do your worst.” “That’s a terrible idea. I’m sorry, but there’s no way it’ll work, and even if it did have some impact on your polling numbers, they wouldn’t be
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