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Dudley is a poor person. Not only is she poor, she is aging and grievously handicapped. She is precisely the kind of person which a Department of Social Services, if it is to be worthy of the name, is supposed to help.

The rule she allegedly violated was, everyone concerned admits, designed to catch those welfare cheats who try to dispose of real wealth in scams to defraud the system. Not even the bureaucracy puts Mattie in this category.

It's just a matter of mindlessly following the regulations, those almighty and inflexible totems so devoutly worshipped by all bureaucrats.

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