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Submitted to Contest #249
Natasha was running down Shaftesbury Avenue in Theatreland to her job interview at a civil service secret location. She would have loved to have her sister’s artistic talent but the lure of real power – to be a government adviser, was her dream job. In the education department. Tash, as her friends called her, had labored away for years as an assistant headteacher – the youngest in her borough at twenty-eight, so young she was profiled in the local paper- the borough she worked in, rather than the picturesque Surrey where there was nothing t...
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