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  "textContent": "_< <Hey!>>_\n\nThis won't be like the last job. You're going to make a difference.\n\n_< <I know you can hear me!>>_\n\nAnd money. You need to make money.\n\n_< <You can't ignore me forever!>>_\n\nThere's no helping her. She's long gone.\n\n_BBRRRING-BBRRRING!_\n\nThank Allah-Buddha-Christ.\n\n“9-1-1, what's the address of the emergency?”\n\nThat might've been too chipper.\n\n“Uh, yeah, well,” the caller stammers, “my dog got loose.”\n\n“Sir, this is an emergency line. You — _< <He sounds cute! Get his number!>>_ — Animal control.”\n\n“Well, thing is,” the caller stutters. “She's kinda aggro.”\n\n“You think she's a danger to the community?”\n\n“Yeah,” the caller says. “She's a pit bull.”\n\n _< <A pit bull!>>_\n\nConcentrate.\n\n“Sir, where did the dog get loose?”\n\n _< <Like Michael Vick!>>_\n\nDeep breath. Hold it. Release.\n\n“500 block — _< <It's a dog fighting ring!>>_ — Street,” the caller says. “Up by Green.”\n\n“You said the 500 block of Green Street?”\n\n _< <Send the SWAT team!>>_\n\n“No, Birch Street, by Green Street,” the caller says. “Look, I don't —”\n\nStick to the script.\n\n“Sir — _< <Let's get this fucker!>>_ — I, um, what's your name?”\n\nCLICK.\n\n_< <What a jerk!>>_\n\nEnough.\n\n“Look, if you shut up at work, you can talk as much as you want at home.”\n\n“Who are you talking to?” asks the dispatcher at the next desk.\n\n“Myself.”\n\n _< <Hey, he's kinda cute!>>_\n\nWhy's it so hard to make a living?\n\nNicholas De Marino is a neurodivergent rhyparographer. More at nicholasdemarino.blogspot.com.",
  "title": "Don't mind her",
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