This man, whom I so loved and admired, had never forgiven the universe for dealing him a shitty hand, and yet he hadn’t done much to turn his hand around. He never forgave his mother for abusing him as a child. He didn’t manage the type 2 diabetes that he had been struggling with for more than a decade. He still had a few years before retirement, but he was jumping from one job to the next, leaving himself unsuccessful in all of them. He took two-hour naps at work. He disappeared at lunch. He insisted on taking too much time off, and he always blamed his managers whenever he got fired. He
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