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The Most Horrific Story I've Ever Heard

I'm thinking it's time to become a union welder.

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D.J. Byrnes
Sep 23, 2020
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I started working tending bar at the neighborhood bar to socialize. Then I drove my car into a wall and woke up in a sea of medical debt. Now I’m working in a COVID death trap primarily to pay bills after foolishly thinking our Republican governor would eventually close bars and I could collect some of that sweet, sweet unemployment money.

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