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January 1st, 2:47 am One of the larger conference rooms had been transformed into a slightly kitschy silver and white wonderland. Ice sculptures decorated the buffet table and tinsel adorned every surface that would stand still long enough. But seeing the ordinary room transformed didn't even begin to rival the weirdness of seeing his coworkers decked out in their festive best, leaving behind the scrubs and lab coats for evening gowns and tuxes. Wilson had never much cared for office parties; there was always something vaguely unsettling about them. No one could quite forget that these people were their colleagues, that their boss was watchi

I met Ed when I joined the Marines for the first time.  Her name is Jessica Edwin, but in the Marines she was Corporal Edwin, or Ed.  It stuck.  She was tough and pretty, smart, driven, and two years older than me.  I was nineteen and foolish.  Somehow it worked. We got married when we found out she was pregnant.  My parents were very nasty about it.  They felt I'd somehow taken advantage of her.  Good as raped her.  Her parents were wonderful.  They hosted the wedding, Ed and I wore our dress blues, and took an oath that meant even more than