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CHAPTER 60

Author: I. R. Lins
last update Last Updated: 2024-10-29 19:42:56

He mentions his private secretary during a sip of hot chocolate, “your schedule is full Bruce and, not to mention that there are about six meetings that are about to be on the agenda...” and he adds, “who would have thought that one day I would I would be telling you this and seeing you like this in a suit and tie.

"That doesn't change the fact that I hate all this travel... and the meetings! I'll be honest with you, Mike... The only thing that gives me pause is the fact that now my wife Finally, she had a successful pregnancy!” She is happy and takes the leather gloves off her hands for a moment.

A miracle seemed to be being experienced by him and his wife, considering that a pregnancy had never reached this far in terms of months.

“Friend, everyone comments that... taking into account the rigor of the treatment and all the apparatus, even a dry tree trunk... would give birth to a healthy child.” he laughs and takes another sip before get
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