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fabric of her desk chair, her inte
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nose, staining the crisp white c
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voice deadly quiet but carrying perfectly across the silent lob
badge against the scanner, and
puddle of coffee, his face bu
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flashed: El
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ng about the quarterly yields
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into the edge of t
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s forty-two thousand dollars," Eleano
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oft, victorious hum
e buzzed in
out the breakroom window at the g
furiously again
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