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Mr. President, this is an election year. If you're looking for female companionship, we can make arrangements that'll insure total privacy and--

— A.J. · The American President

A red ribbon crosses a brass keyhole plate and a pale envelope on a dark blue door.
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The speaker smoothly offers to arrange discreet company for the president, and the sentence gets cut off mid-thought by the dash. The awkwardness is the practical tone: an election year is presented as the reason, and privacy is treated as a logistics problem to be handled.

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