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Thank you for the quote! That viager thing is so odd/fascinating/morbid... (/brilliant)

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Doesn’t it give people a motive for... murder?!? (Surely this is the plot of many French novels?)

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Your question prompted me to do some research and I found this amazing true story of a former firefighter who was imprisoned then freed for allegedly deliberately choking a nonagenarian with a madeleine!

Meurtre à la madeleine pour un viager? Le suspect est reconnu innocent

https://www.courrier-picard.fr/id306515/article/2022-05-14/meurtre-la-madeleine-pour-un-viager-le-suspect-est-reconnu-innocent

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You must write the novel

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Welcome, and thank you for your wise words on the state of the nation! Yes, I find it so fascinating.

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Ahahaha! Olfactory gaslighting!

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Heheh 👃

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