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Sensitive young woman - Sherry Ning

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I don't care about being good. I want to be perfect.

“You are encouraged to play dirty,” announced the game master, “and trust no one.” The Halloween party I attended last week was a roleplaying game—a Roaring-20s-themed murder mystery. Everyone had an assigned character (i.e., mayor, polo player, English aristocrat, bootlegger, stock broker, bookie, and other high-society archetypes). We all had relations (and secrets) with one another. Aside from finding the murderer, we each had our own subplots—the singer wanted to dethrone the Hollywood starlet, the tabloid reporter wanted dirt on the millionaire, so on. We were even given play money to…

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