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“She was still standing there when you arrived?”

“She’d been there for hours Said she was best friends with the fe with the second victim, Sandy’s husband —”

“Weird definition of best friend”

I had to laugh “Sleeping with her best friend’s husband until he dumped her This Debra Kurtz has a key to the victilary And guess what else? Arson”

“Hah! She knows her way around the system So she what? Sets fire to the house across the street — and just waits for the cops to take her in?”

“That’s what I’e is too much Kurtz had the means, the motive, the opportunity ‘Hell hath no fury’ — plus once a firebug, you know, it’s a hard rush to kick”

“She strike you as a killer?” Joe asked me

“She struck me as a pathetic narcissist, in need of attention”

“You got that right”

I gave Joe a kiss Then I gave hiainstand warm and in my bed

“Don’t start sorowled at me

I laughed again Hugged hiht Said, “Ms Kurtz insists she didn’t do it So what I’hts drifted back to the victi around their bodies

“What you’re thinking,” Joe prompted

“I’ either she set this fire because she’s so coht Or she did it and maybe she didn’t plan for her friends to die Or else”

“Your gut is telling you that she didn’t do it That she’s just a total wackjob”