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Kasey

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"Hey."

Sam barely didn't look up from the file on his desk. "You've gotta apologize
for the Rotarian joke."

"Why?"

"Because if you don't, I have to sit through another meeting during which I'm
told all the benefits of being a Rotarian."

"Ah."

"Yeah."

Josh entered the office and sat down. "So I want you to…weigh in on
something."

"What?"

"Amy Gardner sent a letter to Mrs. Bartlet and to me, Mrs. Bartlet got on the
bandwagon, and sent me over to talk to Amy."

"'Bout what?"

"The treaty."

"Qumar?"

"No."

"She's not happy about the use of the word 'forced?'"

"You could say that."

"Neither am I."

"What? Sam, the thing's a deal-breaker-"

"Yeah, but it doesn't mean it's right."

"Wh-"

"Besides, it all depends on your definition of the word 'forced.'"

"I suppose, but-"

"Because you could say the person chose it anytime they got paid or they
could've escaped or whatever."

"Yeah."

"Or you could say it's rarely not forced."

"Wait, what?"

"Not most people who are prostitutes choose to be prostitutes because it's
what they wanna do, it's not exactly a glamourous job and when you consider
the risks involved, not to mention how degrading it is to be bought like the
meat the other person views you as?"

"Then what's forcing them to do it?"

"The money," he said quietly. "Because it's either that or you don't get to
go to law school and get a real job so you can give up your night job." He
stared distantly out the window. "Anyway. If it was up to me, I'd be taking
the word out. But it's a deal-breaker. And things don't always go exactly
the way we want."

"Yeah. Okay." Josh rose. "I'll tell Amy that."

"You should."

"Though, can I just say for a minute, that the women around here lately
are…acting strangely?"

"Could be 'cause of Qumar."

"Yeah, I s'pose, I just figured it was another secretarial uprising in the
works and they'd dragged CJ and Mrs. Bartlet into it."

"This relates to Amy how?"

"It…doesn't, really."

"Okay."

"I'll see ya later."

"Yeah." Sam nodded as Josh left, muttering under his breath some
most-certainly unorthodox comment about Rotarians and prostitutes.

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