<div class="floatleft"><table class="bbc_table"><tbody><tr><td><div align="center">(https://files.catbox.moe/3wn5cs.png)<br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Peggy Barnes (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peggy_Lipton)</strong><br/><em>CGDA Lippy</em><br/><span style="text-decoration: overline;">       </span></span></span></div></td><td>(https://elliquiy.com/elluiki/images/4/4d/AlTeregoSeparator.png)</td></tr></tbody></table></div><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;"><strong>Where</strong>: Manhattan, at Jaclyn’s office at 11.<br/><strong>When:</strong> Day two of CGDA’s Pursuit of Jaclyn.<br/><strong>With:</strong> Nicky, and Jaclyn’s triumvirate</span></span><br/><hr/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">A very complex picture is developing in my head. This Jaclyn Rosendahl has a very complicated life for her young age, 30 or 31 if my research was correct. A company that is half charity and half business. Diamonds several ways. Crime maybe? Going to take lots of thinking even to start to tell the Chief and the rest of the cute girls what we might be up against. Be interesting to hear Nicky’s take too.</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">“Lots to absorb here! Ms. Rosendahl certainly runs in interesting circles. Or however one chooses to put it. No, I can think of no questions at the moment and Genser, I expect we’ll be in touch sooner or later. Margot, Debby, thank you for your time and for lunch too. My time zones are messed up and since we’re probably headed east some more, they’re only getting messier. Meals on a schedule sometimes helps all that.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">I ate about half the sandwich. And left about half my breakfast too. Yet I’m not hungry so nibbling continuously may be the best for this going east thing. My one time going west, from Romania to Rio, was totally different than east to Romania and then east to here.</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">“Nick, um Calvin? I believe we have some phone calls to make.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Margot picks up her phone and slides mine across to me. We nod as we turn them off.</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">“Anything off the record? We will do our best to find her and whatever else needs be done.”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">They exchange glances and decline. Polite words. We arrive on the sidewalk and I gather my jacket around me, breezy!</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">“So next Nicky? I think we need to talk and then make some phone calls. Talk about who we call and what we try to talk about. Bar or back to our suite? Never too early for a bloody, that’s my motto and I’m sticking to it!”</span></span><br/><br/><span class="bbc_font" style="font-family: Palatino;"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 12pt;">Put my hand in his arm, just a man and a woman together on a very busy sidewalk. We soon realize we need to be walking to the right, same rules for pedestrians as for cars. Keep right except to pass. And these people are all passing us!</span></span><br/>