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I pulled my new ID card out of the inner pocket of my pants and held it up for the two guards
in black business suits at the desk. They stopped me anyway, no doubt because I was majorly
underdressed, but then they cleared me through. After I completed an elevator ride up to the
twentieth floor, I'd have a general time frame for the whole route from door to door. Score.
I was walking toward the bank of elevators when a svelte, beautifully groomed brunette
caught her purse on a turnstile and upended it, spilling a deluge of change. Coins rained onto the
marble and rolled merrily away, and I watched people dodge the chaos and keep going as if they
didn't see it. I winced in sympathy and crouched to help the woman collect her money, as did one of
the guards.
"Thank you," she said, shooting me a quick harried smile.
I smiled back. "No problem. I've been there."
I'd just squatted to reach a nickel lying near the entrance when I ran into a pair of luxurious