[9/19/2002 5:07:47 AM | Carol Ellerman]
The night was colder than he remembered -- he hunched himself into the collar of his coat and walked briskly through the deserted city streets.
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[9/19/2002 5:03:05 AM | Carol Ellerman]
But his anti-psychology bias kicked in again. He resented the fact that this woman had so much control over Kelli's life -- and mind. He'd seen too much damage done by the mind-bending profession.
His pager alarm chirped at him, "Time to go pick up my baby sister," he murmured to himself. He shut down the computer, forwarded his phone back to voice mail, hoisted his briefcase over his shoulder and left the newsroom.
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[9/16/2002 11:25:05 AM | Carol Ellerman]
Megan was evidently quite well-known in her field. She had published more than 20 articles in a variety of psychology journals and Nick had printed out copies of them all. He scanned one of them and was relieved to see it was written in plain English -- not psycho-babble jargon or psycho-speak. He put the articles in one of the side pockets of his canvas Land's End briefcase and thumbed through the rest of the pages he'd printed out.
One section that particularly caught his interest was a newspaper article from several years ago -- describing the hit-and-run accident that had killed Megan's husband. It gave Nick pause -- it was hard to dislike somone who had so obviously had more than her share of tragedy.
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posted by Carol 5:08 AM
The night was colder than he remembered -- he hunched himself into the collar of his coat and walked briskly through the deserted city streets.
posted by Carol 5:07 AM
But his anti-psychology bias kicked in again. He resented the fact that this woman had so much control over Kelli's life -- and mind. He'd seen too much damage done by the mind-bending profession.
His pager alarm chirped at him, "Time to go pick up my baby sister," he murmured to himself. He shut down the computer, forwarded his phone back to voice mail, hoisted his briefcase over his shoulder and left the newsroom.
posted by Carol 5:03 AM
Megan was evidently quite well-known in her field. She had published more than 20 articles in a variety of psychology journals and Nick had printed out copies of them all. He scanned one of them and was relieved to see it was written in plain English -- not psycho-babble jargon or psycho-speak. He put the articles in one of the side pockets of his canvas Land's End briefcase and thumbed through the rest of the pages he'd printed out.
One section that particularly caught his interest was a newspaper article from several years ago -- describing the hit-and-run accident that had killed Megan's husband. It gave Nick pause -- it was hard to dislike somone who had so obviously had more than her share of tragedy.
posted by Carol 11:25 AM