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"Monty’s loose again Annie," Eddie says, pulling up kerbside in a dirt brown Studio car.
"I"ve told you not to call me that," I answer, but Eddie just grins. There was a time he used to scowl. But now he just grins. I think I"m starting to grow on him, it’s only taken a decade. Maybe after his latest heart attack, he"s realised he can"t go on forever. Someone"s gotta carry on cleaning up after he"s gone. Trying to keep the Studio clean and out of the squalor has been his life"s work. A man wants to see that his work isn"t for nothing. He doesn"t want to think that it"s all just going to evaporate once he"s gone. It doesn’t matter the job. It might seem trivial to others, but it"s his job. Men are funny like that.
Take me. I drop this gig and run whenever the call comes over t
