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It didn't take long for another sneezing crisis to start. But I wouldn't leave there until I was sure that the next meeting would have already ended. Suzane already knew of all my placements for the project "I would demand a lot of money and labor, we would need hiring urgently, both for the company and for the other factories that it extended throughout the country", and I did not need to be there to relocate everything on the agenda. The people who followed the first meeting could do that for me. I didn't want to think about work that day. And if it was my choice, I wouldn't even have left home to attend.

Probably, if Suzane hadn't insisted so much for me to attend her, I wouldn't even have remembered any meeting. And I would certainly have ignored that blessed letter she stuck in my door in the five days off I took. I was missing more than working. At some very distant time "basically in my first years of work" I would have worried about losing my position on the board, and I would