9:30 p.m.
She took a shower and went to work like all other mental prostitutes . It was her sixth day as a replacement for a cashier in the foreign food store . The other cashier had been fired because of three consecutive days in which she had attended to a sick child instead of coming to work . Gabriele did this for 12 hours and then around 9:30 p.m. as she began to close down her cash register in the habitual manner of ringing up all sales Michael began to engage in small talk to pacify the other cashiers . He thanked them for their hard work . He told them that as indispensable as they were to the Arkansas mother company they were always welcome to be with the sprawling newborn in Sapporo . He said that the store in Sapporo would never shut down and it would eventually become triple the size of this one .