Garrett had had a wife and four-year-old twins in Halifax, but the last call he'd ever made was to his boss. The last words he'd spoken into a telephone were a bouquet of corporate clichés, seared horribly into memory. "Let's touch base with Nancy," he remembered saying, "and then we should reach out to Bob and circle back next week. I'll shoot Larry an email.
( Emily St. John Mandel )
[ Station Eleven ]
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