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тАЬThanks Charlie. That looks good.тАЭ
 тАЬI like it too. ItтАЩll be interesting to see what Phil says about it. I wonder if weтАЩre hanging him too far out
there.тАЭ

тАЬI think heтАЩll be okay, but I wonder what WinstonтАЩs staff will say.тАЭ

тАЬTheyтАЩll have a cow.тАЭ

тАЬItтАЩs true. TheyтАЩre worse than Winston himself. A bunch of Sir Humphreys if I ever saw one.тАЭ

тАЬI donтАЩt know, I think theyтАЩre just fundamentalist know-nothings.тАЭ

тАЬTrue, but weтАЩll show them.тАЭ

тАЬI hope.тАЭ

тАЬCharles my man, youтАЩre sounding tired. I suppose the Joe is about to wake up.тАЭ

тАЬYeah.тАЭ

тАЬUnrelenting eh?тАЭ

тАЬYeah.тАЭ

тАЬBut you are the man, you are the greatest Mr. Mom inside the Beltway!тАЭ

Charlie laughed. тАЬAnd all that competition.тАЭ

Roy laughed too, pleased to be able to cheer Charlie up. тАЬWell itтАЩs an accomplishment anyway.тАЭ

тАЬThatтАЩs nice of you to say. Most people donтАЩt notice. ItтАЩs just something weird that I do.тАЭ

тАЬWell thatтАЩs true too. But people donтАЩt know what it entails.тАЭ

тАЬNo they donтАЩt. The only ones who know are real moms, but they donтАЩt think I count.тАЭ

тАЬYouтАЩd think theyтАЩd be the ones who would.тАЭ

тАЬWell, in a way theyтАЩre right. ThereтАЩs no reason me doing it should be anything special. It may just be me
wanting some strokes. ItтАЩs turned out to be harder than I thought it would be. A real psychic shock.тАЭ

тАЬBecauseтАжтАЭ

тАЬWell, I was thirty-eight when Nick arrived, and I had been doing exactly what I wanted ever since I
was eighteen. Twenty years of white male American freedom, just like what you have, young man, and
then Nick arrived and suddenly I was at the command of a speechless mad tyrant. I mean, think about it.
Tonight you can go wherever you want to, go out and have some fun, right?тАЭ

тАЬThatтАЩs right, IтАЩm going to go to a party for some new folks at Brookings, supposed to be wild.тАЭ