I felt something then, a strange, unfamiliar sensation that somehow loosened my vertebrae. The chair felt subtly, indefinably more comfortable at my back. “Anyway.” My silence had thrown her off stride. “Haven’t done it much since the bottom dropped out of the market. But it did leave me with a fondness for face-to-face encounters, if you know what I mean.” “Yeah. Pag said you took your sex in the first person.” She nodded. “I’m very old school. You okay with that?” I wasn’t certain. I was a virgin in the real world, one of the few things I still had in common with the rest of civilized
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