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Question about Sofia and the mayor


Why did the Mayor want to make Sofia his wife's chauffeur anyway ? It seems like an odd thing for him do given that he was the one that had her locked up.

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She wasn't a chauffeur, she was the maid. I guess he made her his wife's maid because that's what his wife wanted. Plus he was trying to bring her down a few notches by forcing her to do work that she was so adamantly against and felt was beneath her. However, I never would have made her my maid. I'd be scared of her putting something (rat poison, spit or even sh!t) in my food.

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