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Dima

His face showed up in my head He curved those sexy lips into a sh me

I hugged myself

Stop thinking about him

I made myself breakfast and forced myself to eat it Then, I did my best to fall into some form of work

Off the Dia into Paradise history That had me back on Dream Lake and the flooded black town

By lunch time, I made a quick sandwich and filled Barbara’s boith food

She must’ve truly been annoyed with me She never appeared

After I ate, I returned to researching Dream Lake and all the atrocities that had occurred to the black folk in the West— the Killer Crows

In fact, Chanel and Ro to protect and serve their co that

It was self-defense Not criminal

I made notes

When dinner tilasses, and me They ate at my table in silence When they finished, they hurried back to their posts

I instantly missed Sid and Banks, and even the Twins

Forget about all of that

The evening arrived, I drowned in my research

It appeared that even in these recent years Paradise continued to bother, oppress, and discriainst the West The Killer Crows paid triple the amount for land that was already owned Last year, the Killer Crows’ property taxes were doubled and was higher than any other section of the city

Evento expand and building a new exit for Caviar Lih the West, wiping out tons of Killer Crow land

Jonathan lied This isthe Killer Crows, butso on

Somewhere in the pile of articles, I discovered that Jonathan fired his deputyseveral eminent domain letters to fifty Killer Crow property owners The article was put in a small local paper put out by a black-owned press in the West

Damn it Not many people know about this

Further discussion of eovernment to take private property and convert it into public use The Fifth Aovernment could only exercise the power if they provided just compensation to the property owners