Not much progress today. Ruso now has another dead body. He keeps maintaining that he is NOT investigating the murders, but everyone else assumes he is and keeps passing on information. My guess, at this point, is that the murderer is our too tidy hospital administrator who is responsible for the death of the custodian's harmless dog. Our slave girl is catching Ruso's eye. His need for money grows, and he can't spend any on her, so he must sell her soon. But of course he won't.
PUPPY Dysfunctional family has puppy that they need to get rid of. Mom places ad; family is coming over. Description of family. Mom: husband changed from long-haired attractive to stooped old man. Husband: talks constantly of living on a farm and doing what needs to be done, though he never lived on a farm. Conversations together: Sell and move to Arizona, get hooked on phonics for kids, buying a car wash. . . wonderful randomness. Straight-laced suburbanite comes to look at puppy. Seems like she will buy it, even though she is repelled by house. (Dog turds on carpet, filthy.) She is proud of how accepting she is until she looks out window and sees white trash's son tied by harness to a tree. Reader knows he is a menace to himself, darting across I-90, for example. Suburban mother beats hasty retreat, leaving dog to be (probably) drowned by dad who does what has to be done. Suburbanite remembers her own pathetic ch...
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