e were half in the bag when we met Shelby Tindle and Betsy Burkhalter, these two middle-aged women from Atlanta who were wearing American flag design type sportswear and lugging Sony handcams, which pretty clearly indicated that they were gullible tourists. The way they kept looking up at the buildings and giggling in wide-eyed amazement pretty much marked them as targets for all manner of crime. Dirk felt sorry for them and gave them advice about how to adjust their wardrobe and accoutrements to better befit a visit to the cesspool that is New York City in the latest days of the twentieth century. Dirk got their numbers and we agreed to drop in on them the next time we were in Georgia.

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