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61He nearly spat out his whisky. %u201cIt%u2019s been a while, you understand. But I know what pleases a woman. So, I hope to please you while you please me,%u201d he replied.%u201cA good answer,%u201d she said. %u201cRight, let%u2019s go down and take a look. I%u2019m ready.%u201dIn the basement, John pulled the blanket back, and Dawn looked down on the beautiful Caroline. %u201cShe%u2019s very beautiful,%u201d Dawn said. %u201cHave you ever seen a dead person before?%u201d he asked her.She shook her head. %u201cNo, this is a first for me.%u201d%u201cWell, Dawn. A dead person looks nothing like this. They look really dead, often with a mask of fear, horror, or pain due to their final sufferance. I spend many hours working on them to make then look like a sleeping person, just like Caroline here. Touch her.%u201dDawn puts out a hand down onto Caroline%u2019s breast. %u201c%u201dWhat do you feel?%u201d he asked her.%u201cShe%u2019s warm. I thought dead people felt cold.%u201d%u201cQuite right. If you ever held a chicken you put into an oven, that is how dead people feel%u2014nothing like her,%u201d he told her. He walked away to a cabinet, opened a door and returned with a thermometer. Opening Caroline%u2019s legs, he inserted the thermometer into her vagina and waited. %u201cA human being can live and survive quite low body temperatures. Even below ninety degrees Fahrenheit, especially if that person has rare genes which allows them to come close to the hibernating state of many animals,%u201d John told Dawn.He pulled the thermometer out and gave it to her. She read the measurement off out loud. %u201cEighty-nine, point five degrees.%u201d%u201cDead people are never so warm,%u201d he told her.She handed back the thermometer and leaned over with her ear close to Caroline%u2019s mouth. %u201cNo sound of breathing, no discernible pulse, no reaction to a needle prick in the soul of her feet. Nothing to suggest life still exists in her, other than her warmth,%u201d he said.Dawn ran her hand down over Caroline's body until she passed over The Undertaker