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"I was thinking we could build off of your press release pitch," Cheryl continues, oblivious to the iree attention, and honestly, every ties tracks Like I said, I can't fucking focus

"We could do aporn on caves walls, and then show ancient civilizations scrawling it on stone tablets and papyrus," she says "And we can continue down that evolutionary chain until we reach the early days of VHS and the Internet—and then we can have the screen pan into ain a park, or sitting at ho porn It's not obscene It's just normal That's the revolution The story always has to come back to the people"

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"Do you even knohat I was talking about?" she asks

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"Are you okay?" she asks, her eyebrows knitting together in concern

If I'm honest, I rarely see that look on her face—and I've known Cheryl forever Seriously I better get ht and quick

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"Ethan, I've known you for a long time, and I've never seen that look on your face before"

"You're overreacting," I laugh, shrugging her off "I'm sure you've seen ht here in this "

"Okay, well, beyond this angle, I' that the bottom line is this—our focus should be on the people, our potential customers," she says "To build buzz, I think we can turn this product launch into a full-scale event We should also have our pre-orders set to go live soon Do you know the official pre-order launch date? Ethan—are you listening?"