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Speaking of the Avon/Anna relatioship, as someone else brought up earlier-- it is likely she did pose herself to him as someone with anti-Federation political sentiments. After all, she was infiltrating his life to see if he *was* political. OTOH, she may have posed as a Crusader, someone with serious plans, or as a Waif, one whose dreams were dying and who needed a hero. Any thoughts by others on this?

Dana replied: "Just a little girl from Little Rock"--someone like Lorelei Lee, who sees her way out of poverty as attaching herself to rich and powerful men--and Avon knows perfectly well that Anna won't leave a rich husband unless he can provide her with a guaranteed life of luxury?

Possible, and yet my instincts say that that would be the least likely of all sorts of women to appeal to him. Because, in that case, she's choosing *money* over *him*. And if such, she might sell her love to the next high bidder to come along. That's a rather iffy sort of devotion to risk much for, especially the risk to his life that came later.