My original plan consisted of four parts:
Purpose: Relief.
Method: Escape.
Technique: Murder.
Funds: Ten grand.
This is the full record of my last words. Let it be recorded in history that once lived such a person.
Goodbye.
Acknowledgements
I would like to thank Marysia Juszczakiewicz and Tina Chou at Peony Literary Agency, Oneworld Publications, my translator, Anna Holmwood, and Julia Lovell, who made the English-language edition of the book possible.
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