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her off at work, she was not in a good
mood.
I went home and wrote homework
papers for the doctoral degree on
which I am working. I thought that I
probably wasn’t enjoying my day any
more than she was enjoying hers.
When I picked her up at two
o’clock in the afternoon, I wondered
what kind of mood she would be in. I
assumed she would just come out,
plop into the car, and fall fast asleep.
But to my surprise, she was totally
animated.
“Dad,” she said. “You won’t
believe what happened. The minute I
clocked in, they assigned me to work
