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Adalya Nash Hussein

Office Romance

Adalya Nash Hussein, Liminal, June 2019

Katrine owned Dining Table, and was charismatic but functionally incapable of working independently. Instead she relied on her employees, mainly Yana, to keep her on task.

'Katrine, you have a client coming in 5 minutes!'

'Katrine, you must call Mike Williams!'

'Katrine, put away your phone!'

'It is simple,' Yana told me on my first day. 'Katrine manages business, I manage Katrine.'

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