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John arrived at the conference at exactly 8 am. Neither late
nor early exactly on time. He took his seat on the left side of the gigantic
table that filled the football field sized room. He looked around the room noticing
a few of the other heads milling around. One leader was noticeable missing from
room though, as was Jane Anne.
He called his Advisor Mark over and pointed out that Jane
Anne wasn’t there, they were due to start any minute. As Mark pulled his cell
phone to call Jane Anne the door opened and the Japanese delegation came in
along with Jane Anne. The Japanese Prime Minister looked down trodden and a bit
sad. Jane Anne however looked excited.
Jane Anne sat down at the very head of the table while the Japanese
Prime Minister sat down across from John. Jane Anne cleared her throat, and the
other heads began to settle in their seats, most people wanting to get things
under way as they were going to be busy for the rest of the day.
“Hello everyone, good to see everyone here today,” Jane Anne
began to speak addressing each head of state in turn.
“I want us all to spend today addressing our most looming
problem. The Japanese population issue. Before we came in here today Mr.
Takinaka, and I had a long talk about Japan’s unwillingness to accept help, and
we have worked through that. Right now the Japanese population is at about half
of the population they need to keep their infrastructure working.
“Scientists have speculated that the Japanese people will
lose about 10 million people in the next 10 years which would cut their
population by a third. Which would indeed crush the global economy. So I have
convinced the Japanese Prime Minister to loosen their immigration policy, so
what we need to discuss is how to get the Japanese people, for lack of a better
phrase, to stop being racist and have children with foreigners. We also need to
encourage countries with high populations, like those in Africa, and China, and
also India to migrate to Japan to help boost their population even temporarily.”
Jane Anne looked around at the heads assembled after she finished
but no one said a word. She sighed and pointed to the scientists that had come
in after her.
“These guys have an idea about how to go about all of this
the only thing they need is funding. I’ll let them explain and then we will go
about deciding how much each country will contribute to the funding for their ideas
and you will all be contributing because this all affects you,” Jane Anne
stepped aside and a female scientist took her place.
That day they spent at least twelve hours talking about
different ways to help Japan. John and the American people ended up pledging five
hundred million dollars to the scientist ideas. By the time they finished their
meeting that day it was 8pm, and John decided a massage was a good idea, since
he was so stressed. He called up the hotel and requested a massage, there was
only one spot left for the day so he took it.
John sighed and left the conference room heading towards the
hotel spa. As he was turning the hall the get to the spa from the bank of
elevators, he heard a voice calling his name out. He thought about ignoring the
person, but he stopped and turned around and there was Jane Anne Miller walking
towards him.
“Is there anything I can help you with Jane Anne,” he asked tilting
his head.
“Not at all, it’s just that I see you are heading towards
the spa, which is where I was headed, and I figured we might as well go
together,” Jane Anne reached him and entwined her elbow with his. They both continued
on towards the spa, when they reached the front desk the concierge informed
them that they would be in the same room getting their massages, neither of
them cared though. They were both too tired to even think about complaining,
they just wanted to relax.
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