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ladder and honours us being the masters of the

country. I’m very proud of myself. You are a

member of the working class too. We match

perfectly. If you marry me, people would envy us.

Since the first time I saw you, I fell in love with you.

I especially love the dirty language you speak. I’m

familiar with that myself. My parents never spoke

without cursing. When we dated, you did speak a lot

of dirty languages, but the more you cursed, the more

I fell in love with you. That is the language of our

working class.

“‘Now I would like to say something about

myself. Generally speaking, I’m a good worker. But I

still have a historical blemish. Once I stole a few

steel pipes from the factory. For that I was criticized

by my leaders. But every worker in my factory steals.

Stealing material from the factory is an open secret.

But it happens secretly. Most have never been

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