Many moons ago, I lost a month’s work as a newspaper editor. I couldn’t get off the couch — aftershock of years of paralegal work in U.S. immigration prisons, translating and recording the lives of torture victims and other refugees, nearly all of them victims of U.S. foreign policy, virtually all of them denied political asylum. This was under the Reagan administration.
Fortunately, my news editor was the daughter of a psychologist, and the higher-ups were patient and understanding. When my sick leave ran out, they kept me off the books for a few weeks, then welcomed me back.
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