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It’s the job of the GA--or graduate assistant--to assist the director in the day-to-day operations of the residence hall In return, GAs receive free rooher education, which is generally their chosen field

Sarah’s getting a lot more practical experience in the field here in Fischer Hall than she’d bargained on, ith a dead girl and all

"Clearly there was so on there," Sarah infor was jealous because her looks are fading while her daughter’s--"

Sarah’s undergrad degree is in sociology Sarah thinks that I suffer from low esteem She told me this the day she met me, at check-in teeks earlier, when she went to shake my hand, then cried, "Oh my God, you’re that Heather Wells?"

When I admitted that I was, then told her--when she asked what on earth I was doing working in a college residence hall (unlike me, Sarah never et a BA one of these days, she said, "You don’t need to go to college What you need to work on are your abandons of inadequacy youdropped from your label and robbed by your mother"

Which is kind of funny, since what I feel I need to work on s of dislike for Sarah

Fortunately Dr Flynn, the housing depart toward us just then, his briefcase overfloith paperwork

"Is that the deceased’s file?" he de "I’d like to see it before I talk to the roommate and call the parents"

Sarah hands hih it, he suddenly wrinkles his nose, then asks, "What is that smell?"

"Uton sort of--well, she, um…"

"She yorked," Brad says "In the planter over there"

Dr Flynn sighs "Not again" His cell phone chimes, and he says, "Excuse me," and reaches for it

At the sas Everyone looks down at it When no one else reaches for it, I do

"Fischer Hall," I say

The voice on the other end of the phone isn’t one I recognize

"Yes, is this that dorton Square West?"

"This is a residence hall, yes," I reply, re if I could speak to soedy that occurred there earlier today," says the unfaedy? I immediately become suspicious

"Are you a reporter?" I ask At this point in my life, I can sniff them out a mile away

"Well, yes, I’et in touch with the Press Relations Department No one here has any comment Good-bye" I sla at lasses a push, since they’ve started to slide down her nose

"She ought to be," she says "Considering what she’s had to deal with The paparazzi wasn’t exactly kind, were they, Heather? Especially when you walked in and found Jordan Cartwright receiving fellatio fro at Sarah with genuine wonder "You really put that photographic ood use, don’t you, Sarah?"

Sarah smiles modestly while Tina’s jaw drops

"Heather, you went out with Jordan Cartwright?" she cries

"You caught hi head from Tania Trace?" Brad looks as happy as if someone’s just dropped a hundred-dollar bill in his lap

"Um," I say It’s not like I have le it "Yeah It was a long tio search for a soda, hoping a cohtthere to be yet another death a’s student population