Illinoir

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I press the button for the elevator and wait for its arrival with a couple businessmen in suits. We exchange polite nods and they continue a conversation that matches the vague and complicated language from Lobranches’ website. They speak of cross-valued silo platform pollenation or some such thing. Business speak has always eluded me. It might as well be an unbreakable cipher. I like playing along, though, so I nod like I know what they’re talking about, as if contemplating my own issues with cross-ventilated value-added self-leveraged synergistic nodes. God bless these people for being on the frontlines, down in the trenches, getting the work of America done.