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Time seemed to pass in slow motion before the afternoon finally rolled around. Dóra has spent nearly the whole night awake. She answered all her emails in the morning, used her password to check the Delawa Resort’s computer booking system to see how many guests were staying at the hotel now. She talked to her assistant who was filling in for her. She and her mother went to a restaurant for lunch (her father was at work). Then her mother went back to her workplace. Dóra headed straight for the mall and went on a spending spree. Sale items here, price cuts there, and in the end, she realized that both of her hands were full of bulging bags of books, shoes, dresses, skirts, pants… Anything she took a fancy to, she bought. She seemed to have been seized by some kind of frenzy. This is wha
