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    Is t? Bell said.

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    Bell leaned back in o read, tapping h his forefinger.

    After a  do torbert. I know ws happened  here, he said.

    All right.

    o a slaughterhouse?

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    Youd kno if you had.

    I t once when I was a kid.

    Funny place to take a kid.