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“You couldn’t get a date if you bought one at the store.”
The quip came from Shannon Blake, friend to Vanessa Holbrook, to her older brother Michael. He was a decent-looking young man who was nearing thirty with a string of failed girlfriends behind him. His occupation centered around information technologies, and that gave him enough cash to take his baby sister out for lunch every other Friday. She didn’t have university classes that day, and he made sure his workload was light, so they could chat away without him hurrying back to work. That’s what they were doing right then, sitting in a small booth in one of the restaurants on the city’s busier streets.
“Thanks, that really helps,” he sarcastically shot back at his younger sister.
Shannon’s quip didn’t bother him too much. W
