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earlier. Ill go, hed have said. Please, take me, Im ready now.
If hed intervened, it might have changed everything.
THREE POSSIBILITIES
Alex Steiner wouldnt have suffered the same punishment as Hans
Hubermann.
Rudy would have gone away to school.
And just maybe, he would have lived.
The cruelty of fate, however, did not allow Rudy Steiner to enter the kitchen at
the opportune moment.
Hed returned to his sisters and the dominoes.
He sat down.
Rudy Steiner wasnt going anywhere.
