But if all of you are serious, that certainly will give us something to talk about. Remember, to me, all of you kids are like family. If anything, I�...�m going to err on the side of caution. I can promise you that.”I was relieved by Joshua’s last words, but I was still curious. “What are YOU hoping to get out of this? Are you hoping to restart the program?”“Maybe, but I was also hoping to get you to try and ‘teach’ Ann and I how to communicate like you guys do. That would be more reward than. All of the regional sales managers have good prospect lists. I looked over each one of them personally. Good hospitals with contract extended and ready to sign, but nothing is happening." Well that's nice, but good lists don't make us any money. Shit Terry, you're the 'Closer, ' get your butt out in the field and see what's going on."She walked back to her office and re-reviewed every lead sheet for every salesman in the company. Terry only hired men in the sales department because she was. But why? Why had she come? It didn't make any sense. Then again, nothing about her had made any sense.She could have at least said goodbye, Charles thought irately, she owed him at least that much. But he knew why she hadn't, he wouldn't have let her go.Cynara let the warm water of the shower run over her drained body. She remembered a time when she had wondered if she could give up all these modern conveniences to live in the eighteen hundreds, but now it seemed like a joke. She would give up. I'd driven past the place many times, and I'd always been intrigued by it, and I wanted to go inside and see for myself what it was like; but I'd always driven on past each time I'd initially thought I'd go in---except finally, on a very hot and humid summer day in 1981, I pulled into the dusty gravel parking lot and, with my heart pounding in my chest and neck, I walked in through the front door!The first thing that I noticed about the place was the heavy aroma of cigarette smoke. The place.