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Being Known

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Working my way through college included two stints as a New York City cabdriver. The memory of a passenger who stumbled into my cab on a corner in central Harlem still haunts me. Had I known he was drunk, I might not have stopped for him, but, having discovered the fact too late, I was obligated to take him to his chosen destination. Three times he mumbled a street address, and three times I could not hear him through the bullet-proof glass that separated us. I stopped the cab, turned to him, and asked him to speak up. But, instead of giving me an address, he mumbled a series of seemingly incoherent phrases: "After 14 years ... you'd think ... after 14 years .... " I soon realized that the man in the back seat had, in the latter part of his middle age, lost his job....

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