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I think this post has been long in coming.  I tell bits of it at a time, but instead of recounting it over and over again to people wanting to know, I will probably just use this to reference them to it so they will know without me having to recall every detail.

So, this started when I was around twenty years old.  I had just lost a job at a bakery and really needed to get a job quickly so I could continue to pay for my college education without getting loans.  I applied for Wal-Mart and got a pretty quick call back.  I went in for the interview a week after applying.

The manager who interviewed me — we’ll call him Matt — seemed to really take to me.  I assumed it was because of my natural charm, charisma and intelligence.  I was to be quickly disillusioned the rest of my natural life, but particularly in this case.

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