The phone was ringing.
Our study had not been going well. A strained quality entered communications between the research team & university. Funding cuts loomed.
It was decadent to have me living in a sealed-off apartment, isolated from news & visitors just to provide a control. My copy would be in a similar room, modeled on my own. But, from the moment the experiment started I questioned the need for a "control." Still, it was nice to get some quiet work done. So, I said nothing.
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