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"My name is Panacea. But people mostly call me Pan."
"Panacea," Kitty repeats aloud.
"Yes. Do you know what it means?" She shakes her head. "A panacea is a something that can cure a lot of things."
"You wear awful shiny clothes for a nurse, ma'am."
The woman chuckles. "Not that kind of cure, cher."
"What kind of cure?"
"You'll understand when you're older."
She's an angel. The grace to her movement, the drift to her step, the unyielding aura of justice tempered by mercy—more holy than any parson who has ever turned up his nose to a ragged orphan girl.
Panacea. A cure for all ills, or at least, for all of Kitty's.
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A starving girl wanders into a gambling house from the streets of New Orleans in a country ravaged by civil unrest. Her new-found family fights to protect her, but ultimately, the only escape is a ticket west, to Dodge City, Kansas, a border state. She's a teenage whore clawing herself to the top of a dusty Kansas town. Her story answers the eternal question: What happens upstairs?