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She had mentioned the liability but he had never investigated. He had denied any risk. He came, he saw, he wrote a deposit, halfdazed by the bargain.
And he never told Terry. How could he? She was something of an alarmist regarding the environment. Every day there was a new doomsday piece magneted to their refrigerator about pesticides or the greenhouse effect or acid rain or the holes in the ozone layer or the disappearance of the tropical rain forest in Papua New Guinea or all the toxins in the food they ate. She would have had a SWAT team from the EPA in there before she let him buy.
find anything funnybarrels, odd structures in the ground, foundations, anything but God's good dirt?
None of that.
for a song.
God, if she knew.

 
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