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A large sign posted on the sliding metal doors saysFACULTY, STAFF, AND SECURITY ONLY. ” “Take it for a day,” Bill says, interrupting. The officer at the door touches the elbow of her white lab coat, and when she stops, the two of them exchange quiet words. You're to listen, to judge, to compare,to serve as my eyes and ears.

Of course you are. ards, sought for the stomach loaded with partly digestedgreens, and hungrily consumed both the solids and the liqu The painkiller must still be working, because my shoulder doesn’t buckle under the heft. They always asked me to come along, then asked if they could bring me anything back, but I always refused, at first because I took pride