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Teachers unions are the problem, not Jacob Kaimenyi

One of the advantages of being nondescript is that you get to hear things you are not supposed to. You appear so harmless, strangers around you are less inhibited in their talk.

Sometimes, I seem to withdraw deep into myself that I have noticed people seated next to me on public transport look at me askance, perhaps to reassure themselves I was still breathing or not holding onto something I could stick in them.

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