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but what is a firefighter?

I ask puzzled.

A firefighter sounds like a very strange job. Dave laughs softly. Sorry Kek,
I forget you don’t always understand me.

A firefighter is a person that

puts out big, dangerous fires

and makes sure people don’t get hurt by them.

Oh, I say
dragging the word out

like I heard
on the tv machine.

This continued to change around twice a month, Dave continues, until I got to college.
It was only me and my mother for my whole life

so we didn’t have much money.

I ended up going to college a year late. By the time
I got to college, we had been hearing about the refugees coming from Sudan.

I look down at my feet sadly,

the don’t-move-belt pressing on my neck.

I woke up one morning,

closer to the end of my
college years, and I

finally knew what I wanted to do, Dave says,
I wanted to help the refugees.

When I got out of college,

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