"I don't really want to tell you how I got here," Chuck told his wife. "You'll get mad at me."​

     "That's just like you, telling on yourself before you even get started," Cathy replied. "Now I'll be mad if you don't tell me, and don't even pretend you can pretend, not on today of all days."

     "Okay, well, okay...I was at work, and I was all alone in my office, and I heard this whispering, like this woman whispered in my ear, only there was no one there, and then there was. I saw her out in the hall. She was like...like a floating spirit of some kind"

​     "Oh, one of those," Cathy said. 

     "She was kind of floating out there in the hallway, and she smiled at me, and she indicated that she wanted me to follow her."

     "Which you did, panting. It was like one of your porno sites had come to life." 

​     "Don't start. There was a part of me that thought I was dreaming. I kept waiting for the joke or for my perspective to shift back to something real. I followed her through this, like, glowing circle..."

     "I know all about the glowing circle."

​     "I've been talking to Claudia, and she says we're here to have fun."

     "I wonder how Alison's doing with Winston?"

     "Oh, you know, the usual, I..."

     "Maybe I should go check on them. She might need some help."

     "You stay where you're at. If Alison needs help, I'm sure she'll find some way to contact us."

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