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Dedication Page
Acknowledgement
The Park
The Sanctuary
Downtown
Coffee Time
Pavement Pounding
The Gambler
Night and Day
Revelations
Epiphany
Consolidating the Winnings
Invitation in an Alley
Smooth Talk in the Big Office
A Worn-Out Welcome
Too Much
Trolling
Kicks
Day and Night
Lost Key
Visiting
She's Got Everything She Needs
Deep Six
A Hunch in the Mist
She's an Artist...She Don't Look Back
I would like to express my appreciation to Katrina Ernst for the front cover. By creating the fascinating picture you now hold, she caught and conveyed my vision explicitly. I believe the story was completed because Hank Harrison--author of many high-quality literary works--gave me his straightforward critique of the MS. Thanks to his honesty and willingness to put a good tale ahead of a sensitive writer's feelings, I was able to trim much fat from the story, and to present a cleaner version. For vital readers' input, I also thank my friend Sally Kuehne, brother Brien Matson and his wife Cristine, sister Merideth Luippold, and Mom, Gloria Matson, who bravely read the manuscript and gave me much-needed feedback and encouragement. And, of course, thanks over and over to my wife Jolene, who put the whole jumbled mess together. Surely there are others, who I now thank anonymously.
I routinely walk around or through Capitol Park, which surrounds California’s Capitol. The money that flows through that noble-looking building…the crimes people commit to get some of that money…amazing. Most of the time they get away with it, too, simply by having politicians change the laws to make their crimes legal. They often tweak the letter of the law, and occasionally gang rape the spirit. But the sheer volume of larceny is so stunningly ordinary, that it usually gets ignored. Try to make sense of it, try to do something about it.
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“And nothing stronger?”
“I don’t mean to upset you, Loralee. It’s my business to ask a lot of questions. Some of them seem stupid. If you’d like to knock off for now—“
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