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I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose _ you didn__ know that, did you, Poke?_He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it__ a good name and it means __pirit,_ and that the rose was the queen of flowers and I was the queen of Patpong._ She laughs, rough as a cough. __he queen of Patpong. A kingdom of whores and viruses. Death with a smile.
Timothy Hallinan The Queen of Patpong
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I let one of the men rename me. A man gave me the name Rose _ you didn__ know that, did you, Poke?_He said, this man, he said that Kwan was too hard to remember, even though it__ a good name and it means __pirit,_ and that the rose was the queen of flowers and I was the queen of Patpong._ She laughs, rough as a cough. __he queen of Patpong. A kingdom of whores and viruses. Death with a smile.

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