*********There was no clock in the room. Jeffrey figured it was about a half hourlater when the bolt on the door clicked again and the doctor finally...entered. Not surprisingly, the doctor was a woman. "Was there a patternemerging here," he thought to himself. "She was certainly beautiful,like all the other woman that he now encountered."Her hair was dark brown and straight, shoulder length. She had a verytan complexion; possibly Spanish or maybe even middle-eastern he thought.She was young. A vehicle has pulled up in front of our house and shut off its lights! We have just moved to this poor section of tract homes several weeks ago. My husbands computer business has not been doing well and we were just able to get out from under our mortgage with a little cash this has allowed us to rent this run down older modest home cheap!Over half of the homes are empty or in foreclosure the few people that still live here are like us just barely hanging on! Most of the homes are unkempt. He started out by calling me 'madame' which I found stuffy,and besides, I don't like being a 'madame'. We settled on ma-am. Idon't like it much but it seems to be the best of the optionsavailable. I did like him and since I never had a butler before,certainly needed someone to run the household. And so I hired him. Hethen suggested that I retain the rest of the staff and he pulled out acomputer printout showing the costs necessary to run the place. I hadalready overspent, and if I made a. Why start now?”“Because we’re in The Program together. I guess you haven’t done The Program yet?”“No.”“Then you wouldn’t understand.”“Sheesh. It’s only the first day.”“Please. Just make sure nothing like this happens to him again.”“I’ll notify a teacher if I see anything but I’m not getting involved.”“That’s good enough.”After thinking about what Marie said I realized she was right: he’s not my responsibility. I still felt so bad for the little guy. Maybe I shouldn’t. He doesn’t want pity, just.
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