"So what are you thinking? I asked. I meant about the case, obviously, but Cassie was in a giddy mood--she generates more energy than most people, and she'd been sitting indoors most of the day. Will you listen to him? A woman asking a guy what he's thinking is the ultimate crime, she's clingy and needy and he runs a mile, but when it's the other-- Behave yourself, I said, pulling her hood over her face. Help! I'm being oppressed! she yelled through it. Call the Equality Commission. The stroller girl gave us a sour look. You're overexcited, I told Cassie. Calm down or I'll take you home with no ice cream."
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