Their laughter was like the stridulation of the ghosts of grasshoppers.
Procuring the house in Ballister was a desperate bid for respect, for recognition, the ultimate gesture (or sacrifice, as it turned out) that would prove him a worthy successor to the Flo and Walter Prices of the world. To my mind, the Culver was Norm__ way home, the only way he knew. It was an ever-evolving means to an ever-evolving end that eventually ended him. Who or what led Norm down that thorny path__evotion, economic pressures, family cynicism, Beth__ insatiable appetite__as been a topic of endless debate. You can believe what you want to believe. Personally, I don__ think any rational argument under the sun would have deterred Beth__ __essiah_ from his mission. If the Ballister acquisition was Norm__ cross, as everyone seems to think it was, then it was Norm who chose to bear that cross. And pride that nailed him to it.
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Procuring the house in Ballister was a desperate bid for respect, for recognition, the ultimate gesture (or sacrifice, as it turned out) that would prove him a worthy successor to the Flo and Walter Prices of the world. To my mind, the Culver was Norm__ way home, the only way he knew. It was an ever-evolving means to an ever-evolving end that eventually ended him. Who or what led Norm down that thorny path__evotion, economic pressures, family cynicism, Beth__ insatiable appetite__as been a topic of endless debate. You can believe what you want to believe. Personally, I don__ think any rational argument under the sun would have deterred Beth__ __essiah_ from his mission. If the Ballister acquisition was Norm__ cross, as everyone seems to think it was, then it was Norm who chose to bear that cross. And pride that nailed him to it.
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