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to return to Earth.
You'll have to come back frequently in any event to properly
oversee the expanding trade between our people. I regret that,
but I knew you'd never consent to be a kept boy."
Kontar's tongue flicking down my throat cut off my joyful assent.
The following week was hectic, as I had to arrange for a caretak-
er for my house and wind up my other affairs in that time. There
was an expensive formal dinner to celebrate the agreement the
night before we left. I caught a glimpse of the figure I cut in
my tight-fitting dinner jacket in one of the mirrors as I circu-
lated around the ballroom exchanging pleasantries with the
guests. All the leading big-monied families were there, the
governor, along with the mayors of Minneapolis and St. Paul. I
had to bite my tongue when talking to some of them who had pre-
sided over a six-year wave of arrests of gays in adult bookstores
and parks, and who had done nothing about police brutality
against gays.
My former boss was there too, of cour
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