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I told him it could wait a little. It was important, I said, but not urgent. Not in the 911 sense, at least. And it was true. If Tom were to commit suicide on his cruise, there was little I could do to prevent it. 244 But I didn’t cheap nike air max think he’d do it as long as his mother and brother were with him. I had no intention of telling Wireman about my furtive hunt through my daughter’s purse; that was something of which I’d grown more nike air max 90 rather than less ashamed. But once I started, beginning with LINKBELT, I couldn’t stop. I told him almost everything, finishing with Tom Riley standing at the head of the stairs leading up to Little Pink, pale and dead and minus an eye. I think part of what kept me going was the simple realization that Wireman couldn’t commit me to the nearest lunatic asylum – he had no legal authority. Part of it was that, attracted as I was by his kindness and cynical good cheer, he was still a stranger. 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