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I need to continue

"After their last accident off the coast of Bali, I noticed so to the sofa-bench and pulling up ers and routes began to decrease"

"So?" a Board Meain unidentifiable—asks me

"So, they began posting higher and higher profits," I say to the rooan to note fewer and fewer passengers"

The room is silent at this point

"In fact, for an entireof this year, they had al empty Yet that was their most profitablevery strange is going on here So Act as well as the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act as well as a host of other US laws that could shut us down!"

"Stop being so drairl," Mother says dismissively from her seat

I turn to her

"You don't care anything for this company," I seethe at her

"Lorna, it ate," another Board Me sympathetic to Mason says

"We will do no such thing based on the lunatic ravings of a little girl," Mother says out loud before looking at irl who has seducedout like a spoiled and wicked little brat"

There are gasps from around the roo to confront wha

t they read with so

I stiffen my back and look at my Mother

"You're overthinking what is merely a diversion for Mason, dear," Mother says to ets bored Only this tione too far and allowed the company to suffer"