I removed the wrapper from a snickers bar,
and almost simultaneously, _____Shelly's warm voice
issued from the palmcom in the leather pack that lay carelessly
on the marble floor beside me.

"I showed up in a pink shirt - silk -
with exactly the right amount of buttons."

The men were talking animatedly and apparently hadn't noticed.
_____ "Gunter. It has to be Gunter," several of them said in unison.

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