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Sal had a head for figures. It used to come in handy when he had to calculate the vig back in his loan-shark days. === I never told her how inspiring her story was to me. I never told her how much it helped me realize my own teen angst was so much self-indulgent bullshit.” === I felt like shit for not standing up for her—for not standing with her—when I had the chance. When it might’ve mattered. When it could’ve saved her life. I was too self-involved. Too timid. Too afraid. === “I rigged their search history so it looked like they’d visited chat rooms of known terror groups. Added them to the no-fly list. Posted their Social Security numbers and credit card information on the dark web. Made a website for each of them that kept track of their online-porn-viewing habits and rigged the SEO so it’d be the first hit anybody who Googled them found.”