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What is the matter with people?_ Sam fumed. __ said we needed a hundred kids and we get thirteen? Fifteen, maybe?___hey__e just kids,_ Astrid said.__e__e all just kids. We__e all going to be very hungry kids.___hey__e used to being told what to do by their parents or teachers. You need to be more direct. As in, Hey, kid, get to work. Now._ She thought for a moment then added, __r else.___r else what?_ Sam asked.__r else_I don__ know. We__e not going to let anyone starve. If we can help it. I don__ know the __r else._ All I know is you can__ expect kids to just automatically behave the right way. I mean, when I was little my mom would give me a gold star when I was good and take away a privilege when I wasn__.___hat am I supposed to do? Tell three hundred kids spread out in seventy or eighty different homes that they can__ watch DVDs? Confiscate iPods?___t__ not easy playing daddy to three hundred kids,_ Astrid admitted.____ not anyone__ daddy,_ Sam practically snarled. Another sleepless night, in a long string of them, had left him in a foul mood. ____ supposed to be the mayor, not the father.___hese kids don__ know the difference,_ Astrid pointed out. __hey need parents. So they look to you. And Mother Mary. Me, even, to some extent.

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Maybe it wasn__ rational, but she didn__ like the idea of Leo invading her little world. Yesterday, Brooklyn had belonged to her. The Long Island __urbs where she__ grown up had felt far away from the brick streets and renovated factory spaces of Brooklyn. In this job, she__ felt truly independent, putting down her own fragile roots in a new place. Fast forward twenty-four hours, and her daddy had joined the workplace and her ex-boyfriend had shown up to remind her of all that she__ lost. Really, a girl could be forgiven for feeling slightly hysterical. Not that there was any time to panic.