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... olent darkness.

No matter what business you ran in Gotham, you had to pay protection fees to the families led by Falcone, or you wouldn't survive a day in this city.

Of course, you could call this fee something like a management fee instead, because Gotham was already the city of crime families.

But this created a problem: the rich got richer, and the poor got poorer. After all, those at the bottom of society were squeezed the hardest.

It was like the ocean, where ...

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