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“Shirts Moods Patterns People like you can’t succeed If you ever acted out of character and surprised me, I’d die of shock”

“Ae?” He looks at his desk, apparently deep in thought

“I’d like to see if you attempt it You’re Just So inflexible”

“And You’re Just So flexible?”

“Very” I fell right into that one, and it’s true I could getan eyebrow and looking up at the ceiling with a sain, my mouth is a neutral little roseb

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He drops his eyes slowly down to the floor, and I crossI kicked off ood ne

“If I did so out of character, you’d die of shock?”

I can seenear his shoulder I look like a black-eyed, wild-maned version of ed flames

“Might be worth my while then”

Monday to Friday, he turns ypsy fortune-teller screa about your imminent death A crazed lunatic in an asylu her own eyes out

“Well, well Lucinda Hutton One flexible little gal” He is reclining in his chair again Both feet are flat on the floor and they point at me like revolvers in a Wild West shootout

“HR,” I clip at hi HR is virtually like tapping out He picks up the pencil and presses the sharpened tip against the pad of his thu their face, he just did it

“I s It , Shortcake What do your parents do again? Could you remind me?”

“You know exactly what they do” I’rab a stack of old Post-its and begin to sort them