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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="ee733d9ab9fdf4eb42e9dee08642994f"She rolled her eyes. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""We'll talk about it some other time, mom. It didn't really go well."/span/p
p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="6fd3dfb7c1d800ff46b6d24faf624c9e"span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""Why?"/span /p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9986981786c762a4d2329d27aedb0c01"The moment she got in there, she headed straight for the shower and then sat in front of her computer with only a bath robe on. She scanned the personalities that make the most money here in New York. Her mom is even on that list. There are countless suspects if she would only base on that data alone so she recalled what Mick said./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="7a1e1ee10d65c2dc0297a35d56f00dbb"However it may go, Drea won't want to show up empty-handed so she summarized a list of the most suspicious and narrowed it down to four names./p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="ee733d9ab9fdf4eb42e9dee08642994f"She rolled her eyes. span style="box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold;""We'll talk about it some other time, mom. It didn't really go well."/span/p
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p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px 0px 24px; font-size: 18px; font-family: 'Source Sans Pro', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; line-height: 24px; padding: 0px;" data-p-id="9986981786c762a4d2329d27aedb0c01"The moment she got in there, she headed straight for the shower and then sat in front of her computer with only a bath robe on. She scanned the personalities that make the most money here in New York. Her mom is even on that list. There are countless suspects if she would only base on that data alone so she recalled what Mick said./p
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