'Get away from the city? We could take that trip up to Lone Pine. Although the Foreign Relations Committee had to concern itself with other things, Vietnam overshadowed everything else for the committee members and for me. She was thin, with small breasts and a small, flat stomach. The campaign decided to send two of us to Texas, me and Taylor Branch, whom, as I’ve said, I’d first met on Martha’s Vineyard in 1969.
' 'He's divorced,' Bosch offered. My friends gave me a number of going-away gifts: a walking stick, an English wool hat, and a paperback copy of Flaubert’sMadame Bovary, which I still have. As he closed the closet door and turned around, he caught his own image in the mirror over the bureau. Bosch had always figured he'd run into somebody in the department who knew her or knew the case.
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