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Fine, I won’t. She’s having an amazing time, wearing her yellow belt. It gets all of her energy out, she’s thrilled. She just lost a tooth last night, she’s going to FaceTime Alex later to tell her about her new rank. And she’s just so adorable

Charlotte—4:48 p.m.

Ah, see? I knew you loved it. I didn’t realize she got her yellow belt; that’s exciting. She talked about that at dinner the other week. I’m sure your sister will be thrilled. The only person to this day who has ever manhandled me

Sutton—4:48 p.m.

Oh my god, I totally forgot about that. I’m still SO sorry

Charlotte—4:51 p.m.

Don’t be, it was quite the experience. I bet she’s very proud of your little karate kid

Sutton—4:53 p.m.

She certainly is. She makes a point to come to every meet, if she can. And Lucy loves telling her karate friends all about her professional fighter aunt. She believes it is extremely impressive

Charlotte—4:54 p.m.

I believe Lucy is correct; someone who is able to flip a person 4x their size is very impressive. Oh, tell Lucy congratulations from me, if she remembers me from dinner

Sutton—4:59 p.m.

IF she remembers you… you have been on the TV. Much like my daughter is swayed by Alex beating people up into thinking she’s cool, you being ON THE TELEVISION is even more so. She has talked about you several times

She is very pleased that you said congrats and she’d like to show you her belt

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They talked about Autumn and Maya’s continued affair, which had turned into a bitmore…

Charlotte—8:03 a.m.

They arrived in the same cab today. THE SAME CAB. It’s as if they now want to broadcast it for all the world to see. Discretion be damned.

Sutton—8:05 a.m.

lol. It’s a cab! Were they clothed coming out of it? Not fixing lipstick or skewed clothing?

Charlotte—8:05 a.m.

No, they were perfectly put together. Who do you think I’m hiring to work for me? A lawsuit on hold?

Sutton—8:06 a.m.

I expect no less from you. But my point is—maybe they got breakfast together. Maybe they are staying at the same hotel. Maybe they wanted to catch up before work to reconcile the demands from their very busy boss

Charlotte—8:06 a.m.

We are talking about two women who barely ever say two nice sentences to one another, Sutton. And for the last year have done so very infrequently. They spent the night together! And they aren’t pretending that they didn’t!

Sutton—8:07 a.m.

How do you know, then? Are they acting any differently now? Exchanging a nice word?

Charlotte—8:11 a.m.

Fine, no, they are not. Maya just informed Autumn under her breath while not looking at her that her handwritten agendas are redundant when she has the same notes copied into digital planners. And Autumn murmured that she’d like Maya to kindly mind her own fucking business