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' The kid looked quite graceful now on the hard stone floor, like the kill in a hunt, like a leopard or cheetah. It didn't matter how pathetic or otherwise his life had been, he was beautiful now, composed. And within a few days he'd probably make the papers and move people here and there in the suburbs of America, and it would seem quite exotic, that he had gone to Paris and been killed there.'

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