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more buxom than a Playboy centerfold. |
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Who in Grass Valley, Wisconsin, could ever have guessed that Joe Ryerson would be shacking up with a woman who knew how to make fucking into such a fine art. A black S-M sort of art sometimes, true. But the nail scars on his back were badges of a success he had never had in Grass Valley, where he had been raised by a maiden aunt. |
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Sometimes he still dreamed of returning to his hometown and regaling the high school studs, who had hazed him so unmercifully, with tales of his glamorous sex-filled life as an international correspondent. |
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Marina came into the bedroom. Not naked, but nearly so, in string-bikini panties that only just covered her bush. Marina Suslova was earthy. Yes, that was the word that best expressed her appeal. There was dark hair under her arms and even a shadow on her upper lip. "That is Russian, Yosip," she said. "Real Russian." She had a fetish about things being real Russian. Sometimes she would dress up in Cossack costume, boots and all, breasts loose under a boat-necked bodice, the rest of her buck-ass naked under an embroidered peasant skirt. And when she stripped down to boots alone, she was a sight to behold. |
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She carried in a silver bucket filled with ice packed around a bottle of Stoly. She never served Ryerson American booze. She wouldn't have the swill in the house. |
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Marina was a woman of strong opinions, sexual and political. She hated the very mention of either Mikhail Gorbachev or Boris Yeltsin, whom she regarded as traitors. |
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Ryerson rarely tried to argue geopolitics with Marina. And during any discussion of European politics, he had the feeling Marina was laughing at him. Ryerson was a man accustomed to the sound-byte wisdom of the Washington press corps, but such opinions were greeted with Suslovian contempt in Georgetown. On balance it was hard to dispute Suslova's judgments about Russia. She was, after all, one of the New Rus- |
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