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“Nothing,” says Mary.
“t talked to Jeffrey, and I'm going to his h morning,” says Wendy. “I’m going to set something up for you.”
“Cool. Like, what do you think?”
“I don’t know. I’m going to talk to him tomorr
ouse tomorrow
ow morning
when I go to his house about it.”
“Um, how much would I get paid?”
“Talk to him. I'll talk to him tomorrow, and then u in the next day. You can talk to him about it.”
So far, so good, thinks Officer Pagan. But she needs more. She looks at Mary expectantly, but not too expectantly, she hopes. She
can imagine how hard it must be for the girl. Or maybe she can't rt way, Mary seems to have gotten the
n her chair, she begins to press Wendy. «{ don’t know,” Wendy says in response. “1 don't know. You're going to have to talk to him about it. I mean, ! don't really work for
him like that. I just bring girls to him and they work for him.... You
can ask him, like, ‘What can I do to make more money?” Mary keeps pressing. “The more you do, the more you get paid,” Wendy says finally. “Want me to bring my sister for you? So that we can get paid
ll bring
yo
imagine it at all. But eithe
message. Straightening up i
more or something?” “Well, yeah. That's what I'm saying. I’m working tomorrow, dule together for you and
and me and him are going to put a sche hen I leave Jeffrey with a
your sister. So I'll call you tomorrow w
schedule.” “Okay, well, I don't have a phone. So if you guys call me, I'd
have to know what time so I could get the phone.” “Okay. T'll leave you a message. That’s fine. I'll leave you 4
message.”
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