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{phone dialing, ringing} Male: "[unintelligible]" // Woman: "Hi there may I speak to Alexander?" \\ Male: "Yes, hi is this [Melanie?]" // Woman: "It is, I'm sorry I'm calling from the hospital and these phones are just miserable and I'm sorry if you've got voicemails that are just dead silent, I'm sorry." \\ Male: "No, no it actually sounded like you were in an airplane." // Woman: "Oh, no it's hospital so i'm in the basement in the operating rooms it's kin of my only choice these days. Is this number ok for you, are you, do you have a minute?" \\ Male: "Yeah I was wondering if you and I could talk either this evening or tomorrow morning, I just have some things I wanted to go through with you." // Woman: "Of course, you know, whatever I can do I have to be off the record unfortunately I just -" \\ Male: "I understand." // Woman: "You know, I don't know how to best help you and support you, I am sure that you have plenty to say about Jim, but i'll do everything I can to help support you and your story I know you need to do your very best to talk about Jim's transition and whatever I can do but like I said it really has to be off the record and so." \\ Male: "I understand. I understand." // Woman: "If you want to send me any, just because i'll be in surgeries for a couple hours plus minus and lord knows cuz i'm on call you can send me stuff via email except I don't use my AOL very much I'm always worried it's gonna go out of business and so I never check it. But I can give you my gmail, I'm [bleep] it's the same first part it's just at [bleep] and I check that as best, yeah feel free to email any time and just know i'm in the OR I mean the other thing I have is a pager and I know that's kind of 1980s you can, you know, happy to give you that too and so if you could think of any questions and I if you have you know situations that you're thinking about or others that I may be able to provide some background or off the record comments or link you with people who may know things better than me I'm happy to try but -" \\ Male: "Great well I really appreciate that i-" // Woman: "I'm sorry it took so long to get back to me the email you sent is hilarious my university emails go to the patient coordinator and so like on thursday she's like oh you have a couple of emails from someone at yahoo and i said oh my god, thank you for telling me a week later i'm so sorry, but I'm sorry. No no i just i'm kind of not in the real world these days but I'm sorry don't mean to any delays I'm sure you're working against some kind of deadline but later this evening is fine or you can email me and i'll try my best to be back you know between cases as best I can." \\ Male: "That's very - I really appreciate it like I said it's just gonna make the story that much more accurate and faithful to reality What I'll do if you don't mind, I'll text you once the [unintelligible] and I can actually sit and sort of [unintelligible] just want to make sure [unintelligible] conversation and then just text me back and we'll figure out a -" // Woman: "I can do, if it helps you, the hospital it's i mean I just have to call the operator or whatever but I can get a recorded line and then just send you the, they can, it's a file and then they send it to me and i can email it to you if you want to do that it's like a phone call recording but, if that's helpful." \\ Male: "I mean that's very nice of you to offer yeah that'll, that'll work -" // Woman: "Because all of our hospital phones best i understand i mean all the ones down here in the operating room cuz frequently we have to talk to families and things so i can easily have a recorded - they don't listen or anything, just it's a recorded line and then they send me a file and then I can do whatever I want with it. Try that if you want, if that makes it a little easier for you." \\ Male: "Yeah, I mean yeah let me think about that i have no, no issue with it it may be superfluous and yeah i think that would be good. let me let you get back to work it sounds like you have some -" // Woman: "At nine I've gotta start, but -" \\ Male: "Well and it's also Sunday but I'll text you and we'll hopefully find a time shortly to speak because of course we all have deadlines, I want to make sure what more importantly matters is getting the story factual and correct." // Woman: "Yeah. I mean I - good lord - I don't even know what that man's up to and I can't even guess what you have for all of the things he's done since i've not been involved in the bank but I know from the 2 or 3 years that I was there, you know, wasn't easy for sure, wasnt easy on me but however I can help you know I appreciate the factual nature of things and I know when you're a reporter you gotta have all the facts but I do know that there are a number of people out there that are good at factual and high integrity that might also be able to also help you, so, just repeat my email back to me that way i know, I dont wanna, I don't wanna get wires crossed it's [bleep] like my name with [bleep]." \\ Male: "Got it. I will either text or email you maybe I will do both, and thank you again, I much appreciate you getting back to me." // Woman: "Of course. All of my. anything I would call you from here in Seattle would be a 206 area code and if it's 744 which it probably will be, it means I'm just at some stupid hospital station phone just wandering around, so it's 744-" \\ Male: "Don't want to take up too much of your time but really do appreciate you getting back to me." // Woman: "Thank you. Ok. Bye bye."

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