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To: Sugar High Bakery / From: Khan, Ruhaba / Oct. 28, 2016 / Dear favorite baker, / That 6-inch vanilla-caramel cake with its black currant jam center is the most delicious thing I have eaten in all my life. I would like to order a regular-size, 12-inch cake of any flavor of your imagination to be delivered to my home on the night of the election. Something tells me my nephew and I are going to need some comfort. / With deep appreciation for your craft, / Ruhaba.
The boy is now conscious, the agents call to tell me. He is incoherent. He keeps saying that his aunt had extracted a promise from him. He kept murmuring, "I will not speak to the police outside your presence."