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everyone exclaiming, ‘Oh,
what a sweet girl!’ and it
can’t have been a coincidence
that Zalachenko showed more
forbearance towards her from
the start. I say forbearance
because obviously it was
never a question of anything
kinder in those first years.
Since Agneta was no more
than a whore to him, it
followed that her children
were bastards with no claim