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I got clean away. The descriptions that showed up on CNN a few hours later sounded nothing like me. They also reported that the dead man had been carrying a laptop, but it had been smashed. Police were trying to reconstruct it, but I never heard anything more.
There was no widow, I'm pleased to say. I don't know who had been with him the night I called. The Long War, as we all know, has become an international best seller. We are sending the checks to the deceased's mother.
Literary authorities are on the tube almost weekly, decrying the loss of Edward Patterson, a man of incredible talent, who would have become a towering literary figure, had he only been given time.
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