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joy.
    Kathy had already sorted through much of the detritus on their
floor. She’d gathered up her textbooks, her journal, her Bible, and put them
back on the shelves. Thus far, she’d found nothing of hers missing. Colleen's
loss, on the other hand, was her most prized possession. She got up from the
floor to hug her roommate.
    Tears ran freely down Colleen's face. "Why on Earth would
anyone do this?" She cried. "Stealing it I can understand, but why
this?"
    Kathy responded only by hugging her tighter.
    "I built that thing myself! Down to the processor I built
it. I’ve been upgrading it by hand for a year!"
    Colleen's mood faded from hysterical anger to lethargy. She
sank down to her bed and simply sat there, staring at the wall.
    Eventually she sighed. "I suppose we should call the
police."
    Kathy frowned. "I can hardly stand the thought of seeing
them again, after the way they treated me last night."
    "Well, let’s call DOPS, then," Colleen replied,
referring to Georgetown’s Department Of Public Safety, the campus police force.
The acronym was usually pronounced "dopes" by the students.
    After Kathy agreed, her roommate got up to make the call.
Waiting for DOPS to arrive, she sunk back into her stupor, contemplating the
loss of her computer.
    Kathy placed a hand on each of her friend’s shoulders, and
shook once, lightly. "Colleen, listen to me. I don’t know, but I don’t
think you should sleep here tonight."
    Her eyelashes dropped down in first one blink, then another.
Colleen nodded. "Yeah, I guess you’re right. I haven’t thought ahead at
all. All I can think of is how much of my life requires that computer. I’ve got
all the files backed up, of course, but that doesn’t do me any good without a
computer to put them on. It’s like… Sorry. I’m rambling. Anyway, you’re right.
I’ll call my so-called boyfriend and sleep over at his place tonight. Where are
you going to go when you get off work?"
    "I haven’t thought of that yet. I may just spend the night
at the club."
    "They let you do that?"
    "Yeah, nights can run pretty late there, and it’s not
unheard of for team members to spend the night on a couch in the back
room."
    Colleen shrugged. "OK. Catch you tomorrow for lunch?"
    Kathy agreed.
    It took half an hour before the public safety officers arrived,
and when they did they didn’t do much more than fill out some paperwork. But
the two girls felt better for at least having reported to someone in authority.
Colleen called her boyfriend and headed out for his place carrying the flash
drive, which she’d brought back home from class. Kathy took a while longer
getting ready, but soon she was off to work.
    A long bus ride later, Kathy strode into the Neon Nightclub and
made her way to the employees’ door at the back. She smiled at a few of the
regulars, then disappeared into the employees lounge.
    She sank down onto one of the room’s couches and kicked off her
shoes before changing into her uniform.
    "No offense, Kathy, but you look like a wreck."
    Kathy smiled at her coworker. "Thanks, I feel it."
    "Cheer up before you go out. That Congressman is here
tonight, and he asked me about you."
    Kathy smiled. "You know that federal debt they’re always
talking about? I think he spends it all on booze here."
    "Yeah, and tipping you. If you’re going to hook up with a
customer, you could do a lot worse than that one."
    Kathy laughed again. "He’s a politician. You have to
wonder about one of those so-called family values guys hanging out in a night
club chasing cocktail waitresses."
    "Not waitress es Kathy. Just one waitress. And I
don’t think there’s anything wrong with a single guy meeting a girl he likes
and trying to spend more time with her. Seems like basically how people start
living those ‘family’ values."
    "Yeah, but I’ve never heard him talk about anything that
really matters to me."
    Her coworker gave her a look. "Maybe it's there and you
just haven't looked for it