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morning get

d twice, I had changed them. Two charcoal grey t

in a fit of anxiety. The offending items sat on

to my head after I removed yet the sec

I didn't want to mess it up like I had done the last time. The first impress

nother tie?" The robo

t guilty and wanted to apologize. Not to the robot, but to Aretha, my wi

rneath it was a white shirt. Since the two ties that would have gone with the blazer had been stained, I didn

items I had

hed. "You have twenty different shades of grey ties, ten different shades of red, five shades o

?" I turned round to face it, shocke

ts hands rose into the air. "Aretha mad

y blazer. "But she didn't teach you

d it to a navy blue one. I kept on the charco

picked up my phone and the robot bid

sts, you'd know we liked to stay in a relaxed environment while working, which meant jotters filled with notes were usually splayed all over the ta

week, due to the explosive properties of a particular compound

go about the DEA giving me a second chance and guess what - instead of coming on

se my shit, and i

this pla

me with eyes that were red and smarti

ked clean. The coming of the DEA had gotten me hallu

ed in my pocket

eared by security. For goodness' sak

to the DEA. Five of my staff and I stood at the entrance of the door wearing big smiles as th

deringly, expecting to se

roffered. "We have a lot of inspections t

tention was being vied for in other labo

he laboratory. I followed behind, my initial ardor reduced. I felt like a deflated ballo

quipments and giving them a little background story of how he was hired. As he spoke, his eyes

ad absolutely nothing except a big dream. Over the years, he had seen the myriad of trials and

it. My attention was drawn to Mr. Hendricks and the rest of his

elopment and the testing section. Simon had just finished explaining to them about the different research going on as well as the different container

were developed using both stable and unstable compounds in order to see how they would interrelate

oud was a gross

age. I stepped in and showed them round the cages where the rabbits and monkeys were kept. I talked about how

ten people who were in the beginnings of various ca

y chance, like to witness the first human sp

ould very much like to see this." He looked at t

ng lab. It had a floor to ceiling wide screen. As we watched, five men were led inside to seat

up their sleeves and one of my lab technicians cleaned the tender area on the inside of t

he men for at least an hour. They watched for half

oked at his other two colleagues as they walked on and moved closer to me. "When I heard about it, I felt we needed to give you

oined his colleagues, my heart heavy