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Audrey woke at her alarm. She swapped her satin gown for the shorts and T-shirt from the day before and stepped onto her treadmill. Programming the machine for day B, she thought of the exercise like her job. She had a body and needed to move it, feed it, take care of it, so it lasted. So she could work. How else would she pay for the condo, her car, the clothes she needed for her job, and afford to go out with her friends and maybe meet someone?
As she started jogging, her usual calm mind sputtered with new thoughts. Audrey, like many people in the US, pursued happiness by checking off tasks on a to-do list. Get a degree. Work in your chosen field for forty years. Purchase a home. Meet the right person. Get married, have 2.5 kids, adopted dog, take a yearly two-week vacation. She real
