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Decisions and Dilemmas
Brendon came over with three cups of hot chocolate on a tray. After sitting through the end of a depressing meeting about declining park performance, the staff had been dismissed and Bonnie found herself alone with Brendon and his wife June. Brendon led them through into a dated but more comfortable room where they took an armchair each around a coffee table. Bland, strip lights made everything clinical; not even a dusty piece of tinsel hanging over the door was able to lift the sombre mood.
‘My boss thinks I have the flu,’ Bonnie said. ‘I can get away with being off work until the weekend, but by next Monday I really need to know if I’m going back to work or not. I’m not in a position where I can go a long period unemployed, and it looks like there would be qu
