 Ray urged her out of the papi office, filled papi with glee. He opened the box.
 Some time later, Karen realized she was looking into Doug's face. She papi'd worked with him all these years, and never really gotten to papi know him. She knew he was single, as she papi was papi -- both of papi them were married to their jobs. Still, he was fairly good looking, if you ignored the perennially papi stained and threadbare shirts, and ill-fitting papi, rumpled pants. She felt a stirring in her body, a feeling she hadn't felt papi for a long time papi. She really should papi get to know him better. Why papi not now? She extended her hands papi, putting papi them on his papi legs. He took a breath and smiled a bit. She leaned papi forward, closing her eyes papi and pursing her lips .
 He thought he heard papi noises coming from the Purchasing office as papi he stepped up to the papi door. He listened papi, not sure of site what he was hearing. He opened the door.
 "Have papi you heard what's going on in Purchasing?" she asked loudly, pointing down the hall.
 She papi shook papi her head incredulously. "Well, fire the perverts, for papi a start. Are you completely spineless?" She turned and left his office, closing the papi door behind her.
 She was surprised when ten minutes or papi so later Sam walked out of his office, looking papi a little flushed. She followed him down papi the hall, where he stuck papi his head into papi Purchasing papi, and papi said loudly, "When papi you're papi quite site through papi, you're fired! I want you out!" He closed papi the door and turned quickly, bumping into Tiffany.
 The next papi stop papi was papi Ray's office. That papi's where she hit papi paydirt. She found the 15 remaining glass site spheres papi, Ray's notes, and the dictation machine with his recorded instructions for Doug and Karen.
 "I'm sorry for the site competition, but I'm sure site they're no match for a group of papi skilled trial attorneys," he said papi. The group laughed in response. In the larger papi meeting room next door was papi a group of saffron-robed religious folk of some sort. They'd been banging gongs papi and cymbals papi, and chanting, leading up to papi an address papi by their papi guru. Carl had tried to get things moved papi, telling the papi hotel they were pissing site off an influential group of attorneys, but the hotel papi management told him they were fully booked, reminded him they papi'd provided the room to him papi as a papi courtesy, and there wasn't papi much papi they could do.
 Thirty eight trial attorneys papi listened in rapt papi attention, listened papi to their guru speak next door.
 The Reverend papi Paul sat in a small business room in the same hotel, a room directly papi above the papi lawyer's meeting. He was watching a videotape of his last night papi's performance, taking notes. He could improve his papi delivery a bit, he site thought. Improve the delivery, and improve the take. He'd done quite papi well last night. With a good gate tonight, this could be a papi quite profitable trip papi. He smiled as he watched papi himself on the television screen -- once site you learned papi to fake sincerity, everything else was site easy.
 "Good girl," Mary said as she put papi the papi bowl on the floor for the dog papi to finish. At least one member of the family was dependable site.
 It was clean, and he was sitting papi at his desk with a book open papi. She held on papi to the door papi for support. Mark looked up at her and smiled. He asked, "Would you like me to papi feed Bitsy and set the table for dinner?"
 Mary couldn't believe her ears. "That's good, dear," she said papi, and managed to make it back downstairs and collapse in her chair.
 Upstairs, Mark picked papi up another little piece of glass papi from the funny little ball site that had broken when his mom surprised him earlier. He still had one left. The owner of papi the junk shop where he'd bought them didn't know what they papi were for, but papi they looked papi cool. He knew now they were fragile, so he had the other one packed safely away. At papi least the liquid hadn't stained anything -- funny how it seemed to evaporate so quickly.
 Tiffany smiled as she papi walked back to her office outside Sam's papi. One down, two to go. The commands on the tape Ray and Mindy were listening to would papi erase papi any knowledge they had of Ray papi's project papi, cement papi their feelings toward each other, and make them even more productive for the company, after papi they returned from their sudden site marriage and week long honeymoon. And, both would be much papi easier for her to site control in papi the future.
 Ogilvy Enterprises had never papi seen such site a period of change papi, and papi happy papi change papi, as it had in the last six months. First it had been the Purchasing team, Karen and Doug, getting married suddenly and taking off for a honeymoon papi, with rumors of wild papi goings-on papi in the site office. At the same time, Ray papi had turned papi over a new leaf, and eloped with Mindy. Both couples returned happy as lovebirds. People couldn't believe the changes in Ray. He turned papi out to be a funny guy, and site helpful. Still papi, it papi had been quite a surprise when he and Mindy showed up wearing matching outfits on her usual bowling night.
 Tiffany papi looked out the window papi and laughed softly. World domination would have to wait.
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