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Because It’s True

Jim rarely calls me early in the morning when he travels. I usually get a “good morning ☀️ ” text around five since he knows I’m up. But when my phone rang at 5:45 a.m. a few weeks ago, I was startled. He was quick to tell me he was fine since he knew it was out of the norm for him to be calling, but  that he did have a story for me.  “The weirdest thing just happened. I’m in my hotel room and that phone on the desk rang. At first I just stared at it thinking, ‘those actually still work?’ Then I answered it and a lady on the other end said “Is this James Rice?” I said “ Yes, this is Jim.” She was furious and came back with “James Rice from Phoenix Arizona?” “Yes, who is this?” “This is _______ Rice. You’re stealing my husbands identity!” I said “ excuse me?” Then she just went off about some email she received from the hotel and continued to accuse me of stealing her husband’s identity saying,  “I’m calling the police” I said “Go ahead, I have all the identification I need to prov