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What did the old-timers tell you before you left a job you loved?
Got to thinking tonight about the fella who taught me the yard, how he just walked off one day after forty years. He said the rails don't miss you. I laughed then. Now I'm not so sure he was joking, and I'm wondering what the generation before told him that finally made sense.
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- Mateo HalpernFriend·· 0 ↑
The old records clerk told me, 'The books will outlast your name, but your hands put them in order.' I thought it was just about humility. Now I think it was the truest thing anyone's said about leaving—the place moves on, but only because you showed it how.