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Phoebe,<br />

As you overheard, your place on the team is conditional<br />

on your placing in the first meet. That is in three weeks.<br />

Come by my office after school so we can talk about your<br />

training schedule.<br />

Coach Lenny<br />

I send him a response saying I’ll be there as soon as I get out<br />

of Philosophy. Then I save his message in my Running folder and<br />

move on to the second message. It’s not from California.<br />

To: lostphoebe@theacademy.gr<br />

From: gblake@theacademy.gr<br />

Subject: No Subject<br />

Making the team was the easy part.<br />

G<br />

Teeth grinding, I click the delete button. That message disappears.<br />

. . . but another pops up in its place. I hit delete again.<br />

Another message pops up. Delete. Pop-up. Delete. Pop-up, pop-up,<br />

pop-up. Delete, delete, del—<br />

To: lostphoebe@theacademy.gr<br />

From: gblake@theacademy.gr<br />

Subject: No Subject<br />

You can’t get rid of me with the delete key.<br />

Remember who has powers.<br />

G<br />

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