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—Original Message—

From: Donald Carlson, head of O.S.F. Research, Development, and Experimentation <dcarlson.RDE@osf.link>

To: The Boss <TheBoss@osf.link>

Sent: Monday, September 01, 2004 4:01 PM

Subject: Recent Acquisition

Subject was acquired at 0110 hours today via one of our private ambulances. Subject is a Caucasian female in apparent good health, except for being clinically dead, with an alcohol blood level of .20. Subject is seventy inches tall and weighs one hundred seventy pounds. No birthmarks or apparent scars; however, subject has a tattoo on her lower back in dark blue ink that reads CAVEAT EMPTOR. Subject has shoulder-length dark blue hair (presumably dyed) and light blue eyes (Dr. Miller likens them to the color of the deep end of a swimming pool, but then, he’s always been a poetic freak). Subject was in a car accident at 0105 hours with five other females of roughly the same age. Subject got the worst of it because another car hit the side of the limousine in which she was riding. Three of the other five have been released with minor injuries; two have broken bones and are currently recovering at Miami General Hospital.

Subject has no immediate family; parents were killed (irony here, Boss) in a car crash when Subject was thirteen. Subject’s last known relative, a paternal aunt, died eighteen months ago.

Basically, Boss, she’s legally dead and we can do whatever we like with her.

—Dr. Don

—Original Message—

From. The Boss <TheBoss@osf link>

To: Dr. Don Carlson <dcarlson.RDE@osf.link>

Sent: Monday, September 01, 2004 4:11 PM

Subject: Re: Recent Acquisition

Sounds promising. What about her friends?

—Original Message—

From: Donald Carlson, head of O.S.F. Research, Development, and Experimentation <dcarlson.RDE@osf.link>

To: The Boss <TheBoss@osf.link>

Sent: Monday, September 01, 2004 4:01 PM

Subject: Re: Re: Recent Acquisition

They think she’s still in Florida and are unlikely to discover otherwise—a bunch of former sorority girls. Not exactly the sharpest knives in the drawer…plus, they all went to a state school. No problems there. We can tell them she died (which is the truth, frankly) or we can tell them she’s going to be in the hospital for a few more weeks or we can tell them she turned into a bird and flew away.

Come on, Boss. Give me a green light. This one’s perfect.

—Original Message—

From: The Boss <TheBoss@osf.link>

To: Dr. Don Carlson <dcarlson.RDE@osf.link>

Sent: Monday, September 01, 2004 4:11 PM

Subject: Re: Re: Recent Acquisition

Go. Update me hourly.