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to me, yelling into his phone. He spun around at the sound of

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was crossed out with a thick black marker. In its p

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, the paper trembling in my hand. "Jag

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is desk. The papers scatter

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request. It was

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held no humor. It was the laugh of some

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on him and walked

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