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“When the personality engages in these behaviours, it is as though it feeds its body arsenic again and again.”
Gary Zukav, The Seat of the Soul
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I stood outside the apartment building at the Spanish Arch. Bill said Michael Neville lived on the top floor. I checked the names on the outside. Sure enough, there he was, 5A. I rang the number. No answer. If he’d answered, I’m not sure what I’d have said. I kept hoping some sophisticated plan would strike me.
None did.
In the movies, to gain entrance, the hero rings one of the other tenants and they always let him in.
Didn’t work.
I decided to put my garda training to use. I forced the lock. Not easily or even quietly. Pure brute strength. In the hall, I found the stairs and began to climb. On the fifth floor, I stood outside 5A, lis
