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Continued from Part 36.
“I really am sorry about this,” Mr. Harris assured me quietly. “You have no idea how sorry I really am.”
I answered him in a tired voice. “But you don’t have a choice in the matter.”
He startled. “What? No. Oh, no. There are choices.” He then sadly smiled. “The problem is that all the choices we’ve got really suck.”