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46. An asshole
For the next two days, Jo successfully ignored all the phone calls from her sister, Rose and her brother, Peter. She also didn’t speak to any of her close friends.
She wondered if her sister had discovered something about the bet. How far could the movie go? Why did she keep calling her every day? Lily was five years younger to her and they didn’t have the same friends, so it was rather questionable.
Jo was sure that their parents didn’t attach much importance to social media. Even though their dad was a programmer, he was all the more against showing any personal photos or talking about their private life, or revealing any personal facts on the Internet.
Their mother liked to show some of her work on some social networks. As an architect, she was used to presenting some of her achievements on the website of her company, but didn’t like to be involved in revealing any details of their family private life.
Besides, their young
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