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The White Flag AA meeting (p. 361)

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the shapely but big-time-troubled new girl Kate Gompert—who mostly just stays in her bed in the new women’s 5-Woman room when she isn’t at meetings, and is on a Suicidality Contract with Pat, and isn’t getting the usual pressure to get a humility job, and gets to get some sort of scrip-meds out of the meds locker every morning—Kate Gompert’s counselor Danielle S. reported at the last Staff Meeting that Kate had finally opened up and told her she’d mostly Come In for weed, too, and not the lightweight prescription tranqs she’d listed on her Intake form.

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Kate's Ennet House status through Gately's staffer's-eye inventory: in bed whenever she isn't at a meeting, a Suicidality Contract, exemption from the humility job, morning scrip-meds — the clinical apparatus of her depression translated into halfway-house terms, and her weed confession tying her Bottom to Erdedy's.

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