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LEANING BACK IN HER SEAT, Julia felt relaxed for the first time since all this craziness had started. Certainly the two glasses of wine and the beginning of the third were helping, however it was more being on a plane, without connectivity or the ability to really do anything, which forced her to take a pause and just sit. They were about 3 hours into their 15 hour flight to Beijing, and Julia was letting herself get a little tipsy, knowing there was plenty of time left on the flight for her body to filter out the alcohol and return her mind to sharpness. But for now, with her head back, her eyes closed, and her earbuds in, she was enjoying the familiar mental numbness served up by the wine.
“Oh Julia, what do we have here?”
Sam had been fairly quiet for the last part of the flight a
