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Sorry, you've been waiting in line since last Sunday?

Yeah.

Yeah, last Sunday.

In theory, I knew that this kind of thing can happen in any family.

Anyone's first cousin could be plotting murder.

Permanent.

And another thing to understand.

Alan murdered me.

It ended up being so much worse than I thought I knew.

What the hell was Alan thinking?

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