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Yoko and Kim are leaving an academic building at Douglass.

Yoko: "The professor was really nice about me missing class next week to attend my son's wedding."

Kim: "Yeah, but how are we going to work on our joint research paper with you gone?"

Yoko: "We have four days until I leave for Chicago. Maybe we can do some of the research before I leave, split up the remaining research and get together for writing when I get back."

Kim: "Will you be able to email me if we need to talk?"

Yoko: "We're taking our laptop computer. That would be a lot cheaper than phone calls."

Kim: (thinking to herself) "You've got that right! I'm not spending money on long distance calls."

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