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bed with Honey a million times, I'm never actually going to have

her. All I'm going to have is two shelves of plastic with her name on

them, and an exquisitely detailed knowledge of what she's like in the

sack.

"I'm getting to the point where I wonder what she likes to talk

about afterward. What she's like at breakfast. I guess I'm getting

wistful in my old age. But don't mind me. Go out and buy тАШSlow,

Slow Burn.тАЩ As always, it does what it's supposed to do."

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Kit and Honey are throwing a party in their hotel suite, after the

annual Pammie Awards. Honey is still clutching her special Lifetime

Achievement statuette. It has been a wonderful, satisfying evening

for her. Reporters and fans and fellow artists come up to her and tell

her again and again that the honor is long overdue. Honey knew in


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advance that the association was presenting her with the Lifetime

Achievement, so her acceptance speech was gracious and tearful

and as nearly grammatically correct as she could manage. She looks

beautiful in her silver Lenci sheath.

Kit stands looking out across a city that seems to live for the night,

toward a black harbor streaked with the pale-green lights of bridges.

Beyond the window, the world seems cold and clean. People are