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"You and reat friends, Fat Marilyn," Daphne announced, and then pulled out a flask

Soht to herself, but she couldn’t help but feel sorry for Daphne, just a little She had to be miserable as hell on the inside to be such a mess on the outside

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Once Kylie had accepted the offer, she was steered toward the Huned contracts and talked salary and all the nitty-gritty details of her job details that both Mr Powers and Daphne were too io over To Kylie’s surprise, no one batted an eye at her salary dereed and set a start date Thefor the next fourtold her she’d have to earn every last penny, though

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Still pleased with her new eear and headed back out to the street Instead of returning to her friend’s aparth, she took a cab to the outskirts of LA, deep into the quiet suburbs "Wait here," she told the cab-driver "I promise I won’t be ," he told her

Kylie didn’t have a car, so it wasn’t like she could argue over the price "Fine Just stay, okay?"

He turned up the radio and gave her a thu hoh the doors, the cool waft of air-conditioning touched her sweating brow The sterile white tile floors were a blinding white, the walls a co locked autolass doors that were only accessible via a keycard

Kylie went to the visitingand signed in She handed the clipboard to the attendant "I’irl at thesaid She turned in her chair and pulled a folder that was tagged with a yellow slip "I’o through" She gave Kylie an apologetic look "Do you need to talk to the billing departements?"

She shook her head "No, I can make a catch-up payment now Ihad some financial difficulty for the last few an to write "Everything should be fine now I just signed a contract for a new job and I get my first advance pay from Mr Powers "Can I postdate the check?"

"We’re not supposed to accept postdated checks"