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Yeah, I've been thinking about The Fisher King recently. What was your first clue?

Betsy stared at the check and wept.

"Is this all I'm worth to you now?" she asked her boss. "Just a check and goodbye?"

"Come on Betsy," said her boss. "You knew this day was coming ever since they invented that email stuff."

"But it was such a good gig," said Betsy.

"Was... was a good gig," the boss emphasized. "Nobody wants singing telegrams anymore."

"I still get fan letters," she said.

"But not new orders," said her boss. "I'm sorry, but it's either let you go or shut things down."

He let Betsy keep her feather boa, the same one she'd been using for 60 years.

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