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since she’d gotten the news, Brenda let loose and wailed. Perhaps because now she could. Now she was alone.
On the television, the President – looking solemn and frighteningly old – was saying, ‘My fellow Americans, you want answers. And I pledge to give them to you as soon as I have them. There will be no secrecy on this issue. My window on events will be your window. That is