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Exec. Director [of Ennet House Drug and Alcohol Recovery House (sic)] Pat M. is due in at 0900 and has application interviews with three people, 2F and 1M, who better be showing up soon, and Gately will answer the door when they don\u2019t know enough to just come in and will say Welcome and get them a cup of coffee if he judges them able to hold it. He\u2019ll get them aside and tip them off to be sure to pet Pat M.\u2019s dogs during the interview. They\u2019ll be sprawled all over the front office, sides heaving, writhing and biting at themselves. He\u2019ll tell them it\u2019s a proved fact that if Pat\u2019s dogs like you, you\u2019re in. Pat M. has directed Gately to tell appliers this, and then if the appliers do actually pet the dogs\u2013two hideous white golden retrievers with suppurating scabs and skin afflictions, plus one has Grand Mal epilepsy\u2013it\u2019ll betray a level of desperate willingness that Pat says is just about all she goes by, deciding.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2026a much darker and funnier riff on the deus ex machina \u201cI want to be better\u201d moment from God Help the Girl<\/em><\/a>, among other things<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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