The theater I was performing at sent a limousine to the airport to pick me up. This time the driver was not a racist. When you get lucky this way, it is good to ask about your driver’s life, because they are real human beings and driving cars tends not to be a lifelong profession, but a turning point. Maybe you will learn, as I did, that your driver, a Latina woman, is actually a social worker. Normally she does not drive a car but instead helps immigrants in Portland’s Latinx community access state health and welfare services. She will tell you that there is no work for her right now, because
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