“She wouldn’t be allowed to paint that color in Sinful proper,” Gertie said. “Don’t tell me there’s an approved list of colors,” I said. “Not exactly,” Gertie said. “Back years ago, a former mayor’s wife ran off with a musician with a traveling band—the Purple Experience. He managed to sneak a law in that prohibits purple houses in the town limits.” “How did he manage to sneak a law in?” I asked. “He got the council drunk first,” Gertie said. “That explains a lot about Sinful laws,” I said. Gertie nodded. “If we removed all the laws from the books that came about as part of a drunken stupor,
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