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I've always been a hard working student. Sometimes too hard working, and tend to burn myself out,

because I was such a maniac. To do well study hard, get good grades, have a goal in mind,

and all that. I'm in graduate school and I'm burned out after the first year. I find this place

called Abilities. What it is is basically a rehab center for people who have become,

typically become with some accident or something, disabled. They had me working in different departments

different times, and it was interesting. I really liked it. I'm working in this one department that's a huge

warehouse room, and they set me up with this tall black fellow who looks about early 30s,

and he sits, he's with, he's at a wheelchair. So, she can's, hi, how are you? I'm supposed to work

with him for the week. Okay. What he did in the day where there were transistors, he would take

the transistors and bend the metal on each side. This guy was an athlete. He was going to become famous

and rich. He was that good car accident in a wheelchair for the rest of his life. When I found that

out, it was scary. I mean, here you are, picture a health, energetic, all this stuff, and it's gone,

like that. And he's bending wires on transistors. Now, we're talking and I'm helping him bend wires

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