I l’amour Mondays! Seventeen-year-old Jane Ryan thought as she sat at the cuisine table, tableau casually sipping her green thé and lire the morning edition of the Welling Pointe Post--her usual before-school routine.
She took in the headline on page three--Vandals Trigger Heightened Neighborhood Watch--and read the story. It seemed that affluent homeowners in the gated community of Stone Water Bend on Long Island, New York, were fed up with the slow police response to a récent rash of vandalism. Now the residents were taking the matter into their own hands.
"Vandalism?" she murmured. "Why would anyone...
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