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William

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Posted on August 28, 2008 - 12:05pm at Milk Breath and Margaritas
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My secretary was out to lunch this afternoon when the man tentatively poked his head in my office.

"I didn't see anyone out there," he said, referring to the empty outer office.

I usually hear her door open and close and but he'd been quiet, or maybe I'd been concentrating too hard. (Shut up. It happens.)

He was in his 70s I would say, with snow white hair and an earnest face that peered at me now with very blue eyes.

"How can I help you?" I asked. Something about