Virginia slumped back in her office chair, emotionally and physically drained. She had known when she got in the agency business there would be days it just seemed the roof was going to fall in and you could never catch up. Dad's dinner table conversations over the years had made that clear. But she hadn't planned that such days would become not the exception, but the rule.
Virginia heard a knock at her open door. There he stood, a bit grayer and with a few more battle scars, but still the man who raised her and created the agency she now stood to inherit—assuming she could keep it and herself afloat.
“Hey, Dad! What's up?”
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