-Director Down-

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It was the calcium that did it. Too much calcium can knock a body down, especially if that body belongs to a post-menopausal woman with a laundry list of other health issues.

She called today to tell us she’d be coming back tomorrow, which is good news. The sharks from headquarters were already circling; they’d learned that something bad had happened to her.

That they didn’t find out what happened was a coup in our favor. We snuck her out of the office right under a visiting headquarters librarian’s upturned nose. In the maelstrom of stress and worry over the director’s health, I took some small joy in that.