All I Want for Christmas

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Or else I'll send a clone!

"I'll be Home for Christmas” played on the radio on her desk, and Erin Nordman substituted the words to “I'll be Cloned for Christmas” as she sang along in her mind, her fingers flying over her computer keyboard. While everyone else was out shopping, having long Christmas lunches and partying, she was hard at work in the office, muttering un-seasonally under her breath about fairness and justice. Christmas was only three days away, work still had to be done, and someone had to do it.

On top of all the usual Human Resources work, this year she was in charge of organizing the staff Christmas party to be held tomorrow night, and her boss had assigned her the task of picking out the gifts for everyone in the department. Usually he got his administrative assistant to do it, but she was home with mono so he'd delegated that task to Erin.

Normally, she loved shopping and, with someone else's money, it was even better, but this year she didn't have time to do her own shopping, and these year-end reports still needed to get done.

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