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“You don’t have to go to court to get what you want Often, you just have to show these people that you are willing to see it through If you can outlast theive up”

“I think landlords like this know that anyone who rents from them doesn’t have the ti them down” April swirled her pasta onto her fork and left it there “I just feel stupid, you know? I should have known that things would turn out so badly I shouldn’t have trusted the ”

“You can’t scold yourself forbad decisions when your choices are so severely limited,” Sa, and I’m certain that if they can be intimidated, I will do so”

“I bet you will” April’s lips curved to the side

“That’s a yes?”

“If you really want to waste a day arguing with a brick wall Be uest”

Samson had once heard of a social theory that one could physically feel out of place so Walking into the front gate of April’s old apartment complex on a Thursday afternoon made Samson wonder if that theory were true He’d never been in a space that was so clearly not for him He wasn’t sure that it was for anybody

“Try to lookyou,” April drawled

“Stop, you We have a few minutes Show me around”

“Yes, sir” April led the way “Over here is the lovely green chlorinated pool that you swiet a yeast infection”

“I—What?”

“Right behind the main office, that’s where all of the mail for everyone is located”

“That seee complex”

“The postman is as freaked out by this place as you are”

Samson slipped his hands into his pockets and scanned around the corass had looked nice froh, he could see it browning and dying, which was a pity because the large, shady trees and the space for greenery would have been a high point off this complex He could see cracked, iutters were bent The fence was alround on one side

“What happened there?” Samson pointed to the fence