Your Unemployed Daughter

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Did y’all hear? Some poor fellow in California died on his balcony (a single gunshot wound to the eye, apparently) and was there for four days before his neighbors called the cops. Because they thought he was part of a Halloween decoration.

That’s not really going out with a bang.

Remember that guy George Turkelbaum, a proofreader (a job close to my heart; it could have been me!) who expired at his desk and went unnoticed by coworkers for five days because “he habitually came in early and worked late and kept to himself”? Fortunately, George turned out to be a bit of an urban legend.

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