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Rita was five months\\u2019 pregnant. 

Her entire family greeted her condition  as an opportunity to make sufficient money for a happy Christmas in  sunny Hawaii.  For four generations Rita\\u2019s family has lived luxuriously on insurance  claims. 

Their last names changed more often than their underwear.  Wherever they go, they carry a small plastic valve of soapy liquid and a  small razor. Depending on the size of the town they are visiting, they  stay a week, a month or a year. One member of the family will claim to  have slipped and fallen in a restaurant or grocery store. With the razor  they will induce bleeding at their hairline or on an arm or leg. They  will be pleasant victims with no interest in profit. Grocers, and their  insurers, rapidly and fairly settle their claims in fear that their  injuries will increase. 

Rita had been a professional claimant since she was eight. She fell in  the most luxurious restaurants in Las Vegas, New York City, Baltimore,  Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Missouri, and Beverly Hills, California.  Shortly after she began to walk, her family taught her how to slip and  look like she was hurt without actually causing any physical damage. By  the time she was five she could limp on either leg, hold one arm limp,  wince with pain when touched and give all the symptoms of a severely  injured person.  By the time she was ten she had a clear knowledge of anatomy and knew  all of the symptoms of soft tissue injury. Now, at 22, pregnant with the  child of a sailor she met in San Diego whose name she does not  remember, Rita is ready to move into major, profit making scams. Her  brother Aaron would pose as her husband as they worked the major hotels  and restaurants of Sacramento, California. At the Holiday Inn, she fell  in a puddle of water in the lobby restroom where two innocent women ran  to her assistance.  

\\u201cOh, my God!\\u201d Rita moaned. \\u201cDid I hurt the baby.\\u201d

Rita\\u2019s potential miscarriage brought her family over $100,000 for their  stay in Sacramento. Her brothers, sisters, cousins and nephews falling  all over the city generated another $100,000 in claims payments.  

Their welcome in Sacramento worn thin, the family motor homes traveled  west to San Francisco.  The motor homes were parked in a long term secure parking lot and the  entire family boarded airplanes for a three week holiday in Maui.  

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