Round and round and round we go

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If nothing had happened to Agatha, then the General would have walked away, his reputation and bankability intact.

Perhaps his biggest problem, one of many, was that he was a friend of Agatha’s father.  Perhaps Agatha’s father’s biggest problem was his ego, and the fact his daughter was smarter than he would ever give her credit for.

The General had a secret, and as we all know, secrets are the hardest things to be kept.  Someone knows, someone always knows, and that person cannot be trusted with secrets, cannot trust themselves with secrets.

Have you ever tried to keep a secret?  It’s nigh on impossible.

Some people can.  Unfortunately, none in this story can.  But the problem is they are not willing to share, but will eventually because they have a momentary aberration, or it just comes out in normal conversation.

People can’t hold those sorts of secrets, not when it concerns someone as important as the General/.  Someone else must be told so it doesn’t feel like they’re the only one holding down the most important and incredible fact in the world.

Pity then that Michael knows the friend of a friend of a friend who has a relative, that has that secret.

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