“I bet you’ve been to the opera,” Peabody said as she started the run on her PPC. “Twice. Then I drew the line. I’d go again when they finished building the ice palace in hell.” “I think I’d like it—I mean to at least go. The costumes, the music, the drama, and everybody all dressed up and sparkly.” “You can’t understand anything anybody’s saying, then they all die. We get plenty of that on the job.” “But if they’re doing all that in Italian—I’d want to go to an Italian opera, I think—then it’s romantic.” “I don’t get how dying’s romantic.” “Well, like Romeo and Juliet—” “Double teenage
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