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/ "I understand this is your first dead   \
| client," Sabian was saying. The         |
| absurdity of the statement made me want |
| to laugh but they don't call me Deadpan |
| Allie and lie.                          |
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\ -- Pat Cadigan, "Mindplayers"           /
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