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MINERVA WAKES 7

hateJCAH visits. I'R have to start on revisions of the organi-
zation charts and Mr. Asher's presentation for the trustees
first thing in the morning, or J'U he buried in paper by next
week.

She slammed down the hatch, and pulled her keys out of
her sid jacket. There was a shrill squeal of tires on cold pave-
ment from across the parking lot, and she glanced over.

A red sports car. Mazda Miata? Yeah, a Miata. Even own-
ing one of those things, and red at that, is begging for killer
insurance premiumsтАФand then to drive the way that idiot is
drivingтАФ She shook her head, bewildered.

There had been a time in her life when she'd dreamt of
red sports cars. It was hard to remember what that was like,
wanting a racy, sexy little convertible two-seater to show off
inтАФand to hell with the practicality. Remembering that was
almost like trying to remember fourth grade. She'd been a
different person both times.

She stared at her white LTD wagon with loathing. For
just a second, she could almost reach into her past to touch
the Minerva who'd wanted that red two-seaterтАФbut reality
reminded her that a cute little car wouldn't cany her own
three lads and several of their closest friends, or all die gro-
ceries, or half the PTA moms. A Mazda Miata was not a
mommy car.

Reality reminded Minerva that she was a mommy-
She backed out of her parking space, wormed her way
into the solid block of cars trying to get out of the lot, and
inched forward.

There was another screech of tires, and the sleek red
Miata siddded over the grass to the right of the drive, and
nosed back in, right in front of her.

She stared at the license plate, which read "FLAMER."

I'll remember that aU right, she thought.

The bumper-sticker was even worse- "I V VIRGINS," it
declared. The most obnoxious thing about the little red car
was the yellow diamond stuck to the darkly tinted rear win-
dow, though. That told the world, "Living Legend On
Board."