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on your face was somehow more dangerous. I didn't know you had such reserves."
"Alison."
"Elizabeth, come on. OK, so you were young and this guy, let me guess, gave
you a few drinks and you needed cash and did it? It's not such a big deal,
nothing to worry about."
"Alison." Nao's voice contained now the anger that the shame had covered.
"Come on." Alison stepped forward and quickly turned the chair around. She
placed Nao's hands on Elizabeth's neck before Nao Oikawa could object. "You should
have seen the discos I performed in when I was young. Real ratholes with
minimum pay. I had to do some posing to reach bearable standards of living,
and most of it nastier than yours. Some of it a lot nastier, since I wasn't
very beautiful then and no-one wanted to see my body unless it was humped
by some stud. So you have nothing to complain. I was just able to remove them
from my file before anyone else found them. Even all the video stuff. But
at least I had the decency not use my real name, and I don't think that any-
one recognized me, because I only did cameos if films and usually wore a mask
when I sang onstage."
Elizabeth sensed that Alison was telling the truth. Nao Oikawa let herself loosen
again and sighed. "Now my good massage wor
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