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Panel 1
Lester's hand and another person's hand reach toward a book with the title "Bird Punching in Canada" by Sue LaDue.
Lester: Oh, looks like this is the last copy.

Panel 2
Lester stands across from a woman, in front of the bookshelf.
Woman: Yeah it must be pretty popular. My friend, Marla, just recommended it to me.

Panel 3
Lester: You don't mean Marla Doubek, do you? She recommended it to me too.

Panel 4
Woman: No way! She and I went to high school together. What a funny coincidence.

Panel 5
Lester and the woman both blush, looking at each other in an awkwardly fawning sort of way.
Lester: Heh, yeah. Like it was meant to be, or something.

Panel 6
Lester stares, eyes bloodshot, at a conspiracy board pinned to a wall while smoking a cigarette. The woman he met at the book store is at the center with strings attaching her to various people and things like Marla, the Pope, Sue Ladue, and big pharma.