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un out crying to beat the band but they come back for morewhich is downright unhealthy as I told her in no uncertainterms you are undermining all of our work here at theAcademy which is to build up capital c confi denceexclamation point paragraph well she just gave me thathigh and mighty stare of hers and said you think lying topeople is good for them you think telling somebody whosgot cancer that he is all right and doesnt need an operationis the right thing to do of course not I said but if he has hadthe operation and is a terminal case I think you must keephim as happy as possible and in a good frame of mindunder the circumstances well she said in a voice so loudthat the students on the stage who were pretending to bebillboards could hear her at least you admit that thesecretins are terminal cases and that its curtains for the lot ofthem no it is not I said want ing to crack her one against theside of her head just to take that smirk off of her face nothey are carefully selected as possible candidates for futurestardom every last one of them well then she inter rupts witha single swear word delivered in a hiss that I swear sentshivers down my spine like some mean old rattler out therein the sagebrush just wait ing to sink his fangs into your legwell I was not about to be put down in my own Academyand so I said getting real tough you don't talk to me that wayand get away with it you consider yourself warned or else Illhave you out of here so fast you wont know what hit you towhich she just smiled prettily and cocked her pretty head atme and said ever so sweet you just try it you motherfuckerand Ill take this whole place away from you lock stock and