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Mickey Linehan opened the front door for me. He looked at my scratched face and laughed:
"You do have one hell of a time with your women. Why don't you ask them instead of trying to take it away from them? It'd save you a lot of skin. " He poked a thumb at the ceiling. "Better go up and negotiate with that one. She's been raising hell."