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June 1, 2007

6.1.07

The theme is curtains

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Jim: A Life Of Pane

The dame had legs that stretched like a highway. The kind with signs that said ‘dangerous curves ahead’. Her lips pouted invitingly but her cold, blue eyes weighed me like fresh produce. “You must be Detective Mercer,” she finally decided. “Follow me, please.”

Two of her goons fell in as she led me to an office. “You know why I’m here,” I growled after planting myself in a chair.

“Yes,” she hissed from across her desk. “But I’m afraid its curtains for you, Mercer.” She suddenly produced a thick book full of linen swatches.

The dame knew her window treatments.

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