As she walked her route for the first time as a US Census Taker, Tori found many of the homes that she was assigned to visit were vacant. As she traveled through the Elm Grove subdivision Tori found more houses than expected sitting empty. When she reached Willow Lake, Tori realized that she was going to end early today. At least that was her expectation when she reached the last house on her schedule that didn't look very promising.

It was not the job itself that bothered her. Tori did not mind walking door-to-door asking questions to complete census surveys for those who either forgot to mail their forms in or were too lazy to do so. It was the response she received much of the time that got to her. Some people were rude, and even downright insulting, when she appeared on their doorstep. If she could just find a way to deal with stares and insults the job would be much easier.

However, from her first house Tori was treated with respect and even made a few friends. Taren Wren was very friendly and even went above and beyond to help Tori when she was caught in a down pour coming to her house. Meg Jewell fixed her breakfast, Pandy Morgan gave her makeup pointers, Jayne Avalon, helped her after accident in the bathroom, and even gave her clean underwear. She worried over nothing and liked the job.

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