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Necessary Expediency?

FROM
Break Out: Finding Freedom
When You Don't Quite Fit The Mold
James R. Hasse

"Everything comes about
by way of strife and necessity."
Heraclitus, Fragment 80

Fluffy flakes of snow drifted lazily to the pavement in the calm January morning air as she came out of her apartment building, suitcase in hand. I was anxious yet calm. I had driven up to her door, as we had arranged beforehand, at exactly 7:00. That would give us 45 minutes to get to the airport.

She opened the back door of my car and placed her suitcase in the back seat.

"Good morning," I beamed, driven by the bold risk I was taking. "Ready for the Bahamas?"

"You bet," Jennifer intoned with a broad, ruby red smile. She tucked her blue rain coat around her hips as she slid into the passenger seat beside me.

She was there. I was there. Apparently money can buy companionship, I thought.

"This is going to work?" I asked, checking one more time, before putting my car into drive.

"I'm ready to go," Jennifer confirmed. "I'm ready for some sunshine!"

"Well, then, Nassau, here we come," I said more confidently and drove out of the driveway of her apartment complex. I quickly recalled, with satisfaction, the imagination I mustered in proposing our arrangement for this trip.

"You got the tickets?" she asked abruptly.

I placed my left hand over the right breast pocket of my sport coat. "Yeah, they're here in my pocket," I replied, affirming our agreement.

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