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@@@@@And there's you, EdgarI want to
know how your story comes outDo I regret what I
did? Sometimes s?, sometimes noWhen it's s?, I
remind myself I wasn't the same man then that I am
now, and that I have to cut the old me some slack
That man was so hurt and lost he really wasn't
responsibleThis is my other life, and I try to
look at my problems in it as
"Wireman, that's bizarre
"Is it? Think of your own situation
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I thought of my situationI was a man who had
choked his own wife and then forgot about itA
man who now slept with a doll in the other half of
the bedI decided to keep my opinions to myselfPrincipe only wants to admit me because I'm
an interesting case
"You don't know that
"But I do!" Wireman spoke with suppressed passion
"I've met at least four Principes since I did this
to myselfThey're terrifyingly similar: brilliant
but disassociative, incapable of empathy, really
only one or two doors down from the sociopaths
John DMacDonald used to write aboutPrincipe
can't operate on me any more than he could on a
patient who presents with a malignant tumor in
that same locationWith a tumor they could at
least try radiationA lead slug isn't amenable to
thatPrincipe knows it, but he's fascinatedAnd
sees nothing wrong with giving me a little false
hope if it'll get me in a hospital bed where he
can ask me if it hurts when he doesAnd
later, when I'm dead, perhaps there'd be a paper
in it for himHe can go to Canc?n and drink wine
coolers on the be
