“Let’s put it this way. So long as you stay unmarried, take advantage of it. Look for every change of Division they offer you. Broaden your field. Then, when you have the right girl, and I’m talking about a masterpiece like Dorothy, get married. You can’t make COS without that. A Station Chief is his own kind of Ambassador. We’re the embodiment of what foreigners expect of Americans.” He pointed a long finger up from the brandy snifter at a forty-five-degree angle. “You see, I have a thesis. We Americans abroad are engaged in Envy-Control. We’ve shown the globe a way to live that’s clean and
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