Is nothing like donating blood.
You come into the waiting area, sign yourself in at the counter, and sit down to wait. You’re SURROUNDED by poor people. People with ugly clothes and ugly haircuts and ugly children and sunburnt, expressionless faces entirely devoid of hope. The desperation in the room is palpable. Eventually one of the [...]
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Selling Plasma
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Before
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On Tuesday, October 30th, things had reached a boiling point inside Lucy’s in Disguise Costume Shop in Austin.
Although it was only two hours into my shift, I was already exhausted. A man had jerked off in the dressing rooms at 11, under my watch, frightening a group of children; in response, Gwen, my angry, overweight, [...]
