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“Ian’s an adult,” Julie replied “He’s not underage”

“But how old is he? Twenty? Twenty-one?”

“I think he’s twenty-five”

“How does that look? The minister and the twenty-five-year-old janitor?”

“If it were a twenty-five-year-old fe about this”

“Hooray, Julie,” Ian said

“But it’s not a female housekeeper, is it?” a new voice chimed in

“Look, everyone likes Ian,” Mike said, “but don’t forget, the kid is an alcoholic too”

“He’s a recovering alcoholic”

“What if he has a relapse? Alcoholics have relapses Remember how he ended up here in the first place? Paul scraped hio and bail the ? Think about that”

“You know Ian,” Julie said “Do you think that’s going to happen?”

“It could But even if it didn’t, don’t you think it lowers the minister’s stature just a little bit to have taken up with this pretty young guy…”

Ian winced, as he always did when so to understand his aversion for the word

“Doesn’t that paint the wrong kind of picture? It doesn’t make him seem very serious”

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