“And it’s not like she has the CIA or the FBI to turn to if she wants to find out for herself when her chief of staff’s birthday is, so you should be fine, Melanie.” He smirked. I didn’t even remind Char - er, President Kramer that it was today.”“Mmm-hmm,” Walter said, glancing at Melanie in the rearview mirror as he navigated M Street in the snow. “Open it - it’s from both of us,” she said, gesturing at Walter, Melanie’s other agent.“Thanks, Sherry, but my birthday is a classified national security event. She turned around, smiled at Melanie, and handed her an envelope. Snow had been falling since late the night before, and at five-thirty a.m., they would make fresh tracks.“Happy birthday, Ms. She’d resisted full-time Secret Service protection at first, but on mornings like this, she was glad she’d relented. “Morning guys,” she said to her agents as she hopped into the SUV that would take her less than two miles to the White House.
“Those look like the eyes of an old woman,” she said to herself before turning out the lights in her Georgetown condo and walking out. She scrunched her nose and leaned in to examine the creases and dark circles that rimmed her eyes. Melanie’s hair hung in a stylish strawberry-blond bob.
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Five years on a strict no-carbohydrate diet had banished her full cheeks, and the miracle of chemical straightening had finally tamed her red curls. She glanced at her reflection and nodded approvingly. Only a dozen White House staffers were given hard pins.
The small, round pin bearing the presidential seal signaled to the United States Secret Service that she was to be granted full access to the president. Gently, she stacked the BlackBerrys, two phones, her ID for the West Wing, an ID and key for the underground command center she’d be evacuated to in case of a terrorist attack, her passes to the Pentagon and the State Department, an ID for the Camp David guard station, a West Wing parking pass, and her wallet and keys inside and closed it.She stopped in front of the hallway mirror to attach her hard pin to the lapel of her black Armani pantsuit. She considered leaving one of them behind but thought better of it.
She looked at the three BlackBerrys - one for the classified e-mail system, one for the normal White House e-mail system, and one for her personal Yahoo account. The elegance of the two-thousand-dollar Dior purse would be lost on most of Melanie’s colleagues, but its perfection brought her a surprising amount of happiness.As Melanie pulled the purse out of its protective cloth and removed the paper stuffed inside, she suddenly felt worried that all of her electronics wouldn’t fit into it properly. The second most expensive bag in her closet was a Marc Jacobs she’d purchased on sale years before. You can walk out there and be up to your ankles in water, then you take two more steps, and you are down to your waist," said Jones.Melanie pushed the tissue paper aside and gazed adoringly at the Dior bag she had splurged on for her thirty-seventh birthday. "You think 2 feet, 3 feet should be enough for people to stand up in, but if you come to the river, you know that it's so uneven. The rocks are uneven there's dips and falls and everything. Shawn Jones with the Richmond Fire Department says that includes both children and adults and the drowning deaths can result from a variety of factors. In the river, it's mostly uncertainty. Often times when it's less than 3 feet is when we have the most number of drowning deaths, 30 percent or more," said Lt. "It's not unusual at all the fact of the matter is, we always think when the water level is high, that's when we have the most drowning deaths, when in fact that's not necessarily true. As Labor Day and the unofficial end of summer approaches, many people are spending time at the river while it's still warm and before school starts. It's a pastime that has Richmond emergency workers on high alert. Monday evening, a woman's body was pulled from the river in just two feet of water.
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