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Submitted to Contest #177
Roberta Verbosa sat at her desk on the 13th floor of the Van Pyur State Building in lower Manhattan, across the corner from Dante Circle, where you got off if you were taking the uptown trains from Brooklyn Heights. It was Friday morning and the phone had not rung all week at the Van Pyur Translations Agency, where Roberta was President, Senior Translator, Director of Sales and Marketing, and the IT Technician. Roberta created these titles in the hope that one day, her business would grow and she could hire real people to fill most of the po...
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