Everyone else was up and everyone looked as tired as he felt. Cherie was standing watch at the same location Jimmy had used the night before. She had ...one to bed while Bill, Susan, Mary and Jimmy had prepared the reception. She had gone up the mountain to monitor the early warning radio when Bill and the others finished.The little group listened to the recorded broadcasts in amazement as they drank coffee and hot chocolate."That asshole never meant to leave office after his four years," Bill. ?The short story, Violet, is it’s your attitude that going to keep you back.??What are you talking about?? demanded Violet, rising to her feet. ?You’re a fucking psycho.??Not so fast, Ms. Jensen,? replied the woman, who remained calmly seated. ?The workplace has no room for women with your kind of attitude. While your knowledge of physics or cellular biology might be leaps and bounds ahead of your classmates, you lag behind them in a number of areas. Ideas such as respect, self-discipline..... "Madeline looked at her. "And now tell Kaylie how these feelings of yourshave affected her." You were conceived semi-naturally so there was a 50-50 change for boy orgirl. Like most mothers I was disappointed that you turned out male. Whenyou started pre-school I fully understood that the Feminist Republicneeded all the politically reliable talent they could get. I received thenormal information on the programs to evaluate little boys each year andselect the most intelligent boys to be made. Even in the cold light of day I was still fairly certain it would be needless. Bolstered by Spook's assessment of probabilities, I remained pretty confident that I'd seen the last of Estrada and his minions. If Estrada had the Carstairs file he'd know that everything pointed against me being Jack Heyward, from fingerprints to photos to DNA to eyewitness IDs, right across the board. They'd been persuasive enough that the Feds hadn't even tried to take it into court, hadn't they?Still, I was.