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a novel

Scott Alexander Gabriel Reiss

September 1998

This is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to persons living or dead is purely coincidental.

From: SAGReiss
Date: 22 September 1998
Subject: Au revoir tout le monde

Sweetheart, the last thing I would do is to leave you in financial straights. The one thing I regret about our three years together is that I took you away from a promising and fulfilling career path. I am very glad you have found another one. Your job inevitably brings up the question of our parting ways. I'm sorry about this. I'm unhappy with what I have wrought, decisions I have made or neglected to make. I have never found my place in the socio-economic world, except paradoxically the two years I worked at the Farfalla in a complete socio-economic void. The best job I have ever had is at the Seattle Tennis Club, so I can go back there in a few months. The Rainier Club is obviously not working out, split shifts six days a week to earn four hundred dollars. I have applied for a couple of other jobs. If I got hired by Berlitz, I would probably spend a month or two training at the Seattle office. Assuming I went to Germany, I could indeed send home money in a very stable currency. I hope you trust me to do this. I love you.

RECTVM VINVM
Scott Alexander Gabriel Reiss

July 1998

October 1998

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