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Day 1
It was the middle of July in west Texas and the day was hot and miserable. The temperature hovered around the 105 degree mark. There was not a cloud in the sky. The wind was blowing hard out of the southwest. Trash and tumbleweeds roll across the land. Plastic trash bags that were tangled in the weeds billowed like sails when the wind gusts. It was the type of day you start sweating if you even though about going outside. If you look into the distance you could see the dust blowing in the air. As soon as you step outside it felt as if your very breath had been taken away it was like walking into a blast furnace. It was just another typical hot west Texas July day. You could see the heat rising up into the air from the road surface. It was the kind of day you hear old men talking about over coffee at the local truck stop or café.
Gentech was one of the world’s largest and most well know genetic research companies, had just built its biggest and best facility in Big Spring, Texas. The one-story brown stucco building was custom built for Gentech for its genetic research program. The building had few windows. There was no fence around the building or even the property. There was not even a security booth at the entrance to facility. The building looked like many other office buildings in this part of the country. If you did not work there you would have no idea what went on inside the non-descript building. As a matter of fact it looked completely harmless. The area around the building had been landscaped with flowers and shrubs. That bloomed to add beauty and color to an otherwise dull and semi-brown landscape the normal color for west Texas. Gentech provided a huge boost for the town’s economy a town that desperately needed one. The town was always was having trouble getting new business’s to relocate to this part of Texas, mainly due to its location in the middle of west Texas. Two hundred and thirty miles west of Ft. Worth and three hundred and thirty three miles east of El Paso. Big Spring was for the most part in the middle of no where. Big Spring, Texas, is a small town it sits at crossroads of Interstate 20 and Highway 87 population about 23000 people.
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