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The Deal II: The Agency
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I’m chatting with the camera operator, rehearsing the framing of the opening shot one more time, when I feel Rod’s hand on my shoulder. “You ready, Fuentes?” he asks.
I look back up at him and smile. “When you’re the director, I’m ready for anything. Season 8, Episode 1, let’s shoot this thing!”
He laughs. “I’d be nothing without you as my cinematographer!” I wave him off, suppressing a smile.
We’re not normally this friendly, this nice to each other on set. There are too many things going on, too many things to worry about. We’re each in our own world if w
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Pregnant and Growing (pregnancy/weight gain) Ch. 1
Rachel was a grad student who was working three jobs to pay for school. She had exhausted every loan option during her undergrad years, and now was in danger of not finishing her Masters degree. Despite working or doing schoolwork every waking minute, Rachel was failing multiple classes and wasn't sure she could afford tuition for the semester. Something had to give. She saw the flyer while walking home from class one day. "Clinical Research" "Women of Child-bearing age" "Minimum $20,000 compensation". She couldn't believe her eyes. It was probably too good to be true but she decided it was worth checking out. The next day she went to the clinic that had been advertised in the flyer. A nurse called her back and the two sat across from each other in an exam room. "I'm going to be very direct with you," the nurse said. "Most patients are initially taken aback when I explain the research we do here." Rachel nodded and continued to listen. "We research how to make pregnancy safer for
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Nothing like Home - Reboot
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Caroline Morgan was bound and determined that things were going to be different now. High school had been good and she'd had some fun there, but Caroline wanted to start a new chapter in her life now that she was starting college. For starters, nobody was going to call her Caroline anymore. She had started to dislike the name in ninth grade, but by that point everybody had called her Caroline for so many years that it was futile to try and get people to call her anything else. Now, for the first time in her life, Caroline was going to be introducing herself to 7,000 people who had never met her before and that