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days. Some of them said, “Logically Soapy must
have Whitewashed Company Commander. He was
standing next to her. That’s a rare chance. He could
by no means let it slip.”
Monkey King said, “Soapy has been crazy for
women. Night after night he masturbates under his
quilt. He will sooner or later go mad!”
I said nothing.
One day, at entrance of the dormitory building, I
met Company Commander. She slipped a letter to me.
She apologized for her misunderstanding me.
She said in her letter, “Soapy, excuse me for
misunderstanding you and making you suffer from
great insult in broad daylight. I only did it because I
had heard too many stories about you. I thought you
were a great lecher, as people would say. Nowadays
there are too many Stinking Old Ninths. Most of
them are as immoral as hoodlum. They are crazy for
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