My Timeless Gift for 17 Consecutive Years of Perfect Attendance at Work
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6 min readJul 16, 2022
When I got a summer job at the factory where my father worked after my junior year of high school, one of his co-workers told me my dad had “nervous nerves.” That was on one of the days when I came in to work, but my father stayed home on the couch, suffering from one of his periodic bouts of depression and anxiety. Sometimes his delusional fear that he’d accidentally…
