And then Paul, who was never a man to mince his words, sat down in front of her. He sat in the very chair that Susan Logan had been sitting in. He said he had something to say and he wanted to say it quickly because he was going out with the lads. He said he had heard she wanted to finish up the relationship and that he had become boring and smelly even and, actually, that suited him very well because he had been feeling the same way for a few months past. So we'll finish it here, he said, and I wish you well.
Small towns have great hearing.
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