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Lenore didn't find the card until after she got home and started the lundry. Jack and Kelly were not tired enough and she could hear them playing in the front while she tried to get her housework done. She was doing a liteny of Please, let them tire out soon when she felt the corner of the card poking into her leg through her skirt pocket. She pulled it out and turned it around in her fingers a few times. She had no memory of how she got the card, or where she would have met anyone named Kyle Phillips of the CIA. Was he a friend of Robert's?

She put the card back in her pocket, thinking that must be it. He was a friend of Robert's and she just picked the card up while cleaning. Humming, she went back to the lundry, finally hearing the kids start to quiet down. But, then, the little demon of doubt crept into her mind. She hadn't really picked anything up today, not before she went to the park. And Robert never spoke about any of his business friends. Certainly, the name of Kyle Phillips didn't sound familiar. Lenore bit her lip as she put the wet load of whites into the dryer. Should she ask Robert if he ever heard of Kyle Phillips? Something was just nagging at the back of her head.

Robert would never like it if she talked to him about his work. She took the card out and turned it around in her fingers again. She was almost certain she didn't have the card this morning. The longer she thought about it, the more curious she got about how she came by the card. She didnt' want to embarass her husband. Appearances meant everything. And calling a strange man out of the blue would be embarassing.

But if she didn't have the card that morning, it meant she gained it somehow in the park. And that was a mystery.

Taking a chance, she scooped up her rapidly tiring kids and put them to bed. Shutting them in, she went to the kitchen and picked up the phone. She dialed the number on the card, and promptly hung up. She did this three more times before gathering the courage to let it ring more than once. She was about to hang up again when she heard it click. Someone had picked up on the other end.

"He-hello? This is Lenore Williams. Is this Kyle Phillips?" She decided to not tell him she had no clue who he was just yet. Maybe he was someone Robert knew, and she just forgot putting the card in her pocket. This would embarass her and she knew she'd never live it down.