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This Was Not the Real McCoy
Author: Grant Koeneke
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            When I was young I liked to sneak around in the dark wearing black clothes to see how good I was at concealing myself.  I got pretty good at hiding in the shadows and figuring out even where to hide in the light to not be noticed.  Sometimes the most obvious spots were the best spots not to be seen.

            Sitting on a step, I stared over the railing of the stairwell looking down at the door I had to go through in order to find out the information we needed, I had no idea how many people were in the room.  It had been an hour since I had seen the inside of it and McCoy probably got his reinforcements approved so there was no telling the count of people in that room.

            Remembering the layout of the room in detail, all the tables were covered with laptops and paperw

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