’ But she did not have more than a couple of seconds to think about these things.“What was that about?” asked Brad from his doorway, obviously n...w off the phone.Jennifer turned toward her boss and said, “Mr. Kennedy just stepped in and said that he wanted to pass along his welcome to you upon our arrival here in our new offices.” She appeared to feel absolutely no shame in using the pronoun ‘our’ in her comment, Brad noticed.Jennifer’s brow furrowed now as she continued. “He also said something. She leaned back a bit and looked me in the eye. "Why is it that sometimes I feel you're my big sister?"Now it was my turn to get a bit teary. "Oh thank you Annette, that's the nicest thing anybody's ever said to me!" I said as I hugged her back.We stood for a few moments more, just sharing the feelings, when my stomach let out a huge growl and broke us all up into peals of laughter. "Okay, breakfast!" Annette giggled.By 7:30, the four of us were in the restaurant, where we found Dr. Parker. Once they complete that, and we can add those to the database. Mike's team will also have to keep up with new issues to keep everything current."We made it back to the office, and one of Dave's guys was laughing so hard he was crying. Dave asked him what was so funny."I've had six calls today from the arbitrage divisions at other firms. They were asking if we were having any troubles today. He said that they hadn't been able to execute a trade all day. I told him that I hadn't been able to. .” She didn’t like the sound of that, but she kept her silence. After a moment, Judy went on.“You, of all people, should remember the brouhaha over the last rummage sale.”“Well, I’m married to the man who started it.”“Bill didn’t really start it. He just refused to roll over. Well, some of us are getting a little tired. The group needs new blood at the top, and won’t get it until some new people attend, which won’t happen as long as it’s the same old - same old, which won’t change until we get.