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file:///J|/sci-fi/Nieuwe%20map/Kage%20Baker%20-%20Pueblo,%20Colorado%20Has%20the%20Answers.txt ====================== Pueblo, Colorado Has the Answers by Kage Baker ====================== Copyright (c)2001 by Kage Baker Fictionwise Contemporary Science Fiction NOTICE: This work is copyrighted. It is licensed only for use by the purchaser. If you did not purchase this ebook directly from F then you are in violation of copyright law and are subject to severe fines. Please visit to purchase a legal copy. F offers a reward for information leading to the conviction of copyright violators of Fictionwise ebooks. Marybeth Hatta had survived a lot. Not as much as her parents, certainly; her one failed marriage had ended without drama. The fact that she had been a Customer Serviceperson for a financial institution, and had worked her patient way over years to within inches of the glass ceiling before being laid off when the company was purchased and dismantled for Corporate looting -- well, that wasnt noteworthy either, given the state of Californias economy. It _had_ happened to Marybeth three times in a row, however, over a period of twenty years, and even the girl at the Unemployment office had agreed the odds against that were probably high. It looked funny on a resume, too. At the age of forty she found herself with no job, no Wilshire Boulevard apartment, and no prospects at all. Under the circumstances she was grateful to be able to go home to the tiny coastal town where shed grown up, to do what shed adamantly refused to do twenty years earlier when her life hadnt been irrelevant: take a job in her parents store. Nothing had changed there. Not the stained green linoleum, not the candy display rack with its rolls of tin Lifesavers, not the ceiling fan describing the same wobbling circle it had described since June 1948, not the bright plastic beach toys and bottles of sun lotion. The little town hadnt changed either, wit