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Sam sat down on the bench, exhausted after his outburst

“Sorry … It just upset htmare!” Sam said

“I know Reht you the sandwich and you found a hair on the plate? I thought you were going to throw up, or punch the waiter, or both” I laughed, trying to lighten the mood

“It is so strange to see this happen It’s ide People are dying”

“C’ with it well I heard South Korea is already initiating ive him some hope “Lots of people in Asia wear masks every flu season”

“Oh, God, I don’t have a et them?”

“At a drug store or a hospital, I would i ood shape — These things, they tend to hurt old people and people in ill health Ilike thirty thousand people die of the flu every year?”

“I didn’t know that Is that true?”

“Yeah This could be one of those things,” I said “I h Once our scientists start looking into things, we’ll get some real answers, I think”

Sa down If he was this upset, I could only iine what it would do to the rest of the staff once they were told Perhaps they had already heard They were constantly on the Internet for our clients all day; a big story like that would be hard to miss

“C’, and hash all this out,” I said confidently “People can have Zoos or Facetime Between that and eo, we’ll strip down to a skeleton crew until our nuh, so I don’t think we’ll have to do that”

“Sorry for being so frazzled,” said Sa nervously “It’s just so… It’s weird”

“Yeah, buddy, I hear ya,” I said, patting him on the back as we left “But you and ht?”

Chapter Four