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Submitted to Contest #316
Nobody can know. No one. Not Carrie, not Mike. If they knew, my life might as well be over. Work has been a nightmare today. Emails and meetings nonstop. Middle, upper, and even lower management have been on my tail for progress reports and indexes and all sorts of corporate necessities that make little sense to me. I don’t even care today. There is far too much on my mind. “Jeff,” I asked my boss, “would it be alright if I took off a smidge early, today? Ten, fifteen minutes, tops.” He looked up from the comically tall stack of papers on hi...
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