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Sarah woke on the Wednesday morning before Thanksgiving feeling better than she had in days. Her body didn’t ache the way it had, and she felt well-rested instead of lethargic from all her hours in bed.
She went into the bathroom and splashed cold water on her face and brushed her teeth. The dark circles under her eyes were gone. She still looked paler than normal, but she hoped a little food and tea would help.
While she waited for room service, she booted up her laptop. She hadn’t checked e-mail since Monday morning. There were the usual garbage messages she deleted without reading, but a few of them grabbed her attention.
The secretary she shared with three other lawyers in the firm had e-mailed her several sets of scanned documents, all with the subject line “Mason Manufacturing
