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while the chief of the CIA’s Moscow station was filling his gas tank

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Following a man he barely knows to a hostile country where she has no friends and no home

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My Friend Is Sad Condition:Very Good ” In a New YorkThese are one of a series of delightfully humorous award winning tales for beginner readers from an internationally acclaimed author illustrator. Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. In "My Friend is Sad", Gerald is sad. How can Piggie be happy if Gerald is sad? Told entirely in speech bubbles with a repetitive use of familiar