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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