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"Heather!" Muffy cries, shocked

Stephanie bursts out laughing So does Sarah, but for different reasons Dr Jessup looks a "I’ree and everything I’ll hang my diploma up in my new office as soon as they mail it I’ll admit this is my first professional position--"

I don’t want to be rude by saying so out loud, but I can tell Soive it away, since Dr Jessup exclaims, "Jesus Christ, Wells, can’t you see why I hired her?"

I glance at him, startled "Umno?"

"She seemed like she’d be a perfect fit with you!" he says "You’ve been through such a hard time lately with bosses"--I notice how he tactfully avoidsthat all of my bosses have ended up dead, jailed for ht the department should throw you a bone Lisa Wu’s youwell, except for the Asian part"

I look back at Lisa Wu, thinking that it’s a shame about Dr Jessup’s early onset Alzhei She does look a little like er and skinnier and Asian, of course

I’ jeans and a T-shirt Well, mine isn’t exactly a T-shirt, it’s a nice fitted black shirt ive a delicate s effect where I need it

I’ve got on flip-flops (though mine are platforms with sequins) And my hair is in a ponytail (because it’s so hot out) And I have, upon occasion, been accused of having too h I resent this

Lisa must notice my scrutiny, since she smiles and says, a little sheepishly, "When Dr Jessup called to say I got the job a little while ago, I was so excited I said I happened to be in the city, and he said to come on over I told him I wasn’t exactly dressed properly, but he said it wouldn’tmarried?" This is too weird

"Yeah," Lisa says "I never thought I’d go for the big wedding, but , and so are Cory’s I found the cutest fit-n-flare, it was a sample on sale for only five hundred bucks" She reaches for a nearby tote bag Unlike Stephanie’s, it isn’t designer It’s one that looks like she got it free for donating to PBS Or probably her parents did "I have a picture of it here inbinder? Maybe we don’t have that ht be things I could learn froirl talk," Stephanie says coldly, "scintillating as it is, could we get back to the subject at hand?"

I’d forgotten Stephanie was still in the roo binder? Whatever it is, I’m pretty sure there’s someone out there who’s tried to eat it I would totally watch that "Sure"

"Shooting is going to start this weekend, when the girls co to be put in" Stephanie has drawn her own binder fro It doesn’t look like it contains infor theirto suit the show at all We can’t have a bunch of stage et rid of these old biddies?"