From the Left: GOP's deficit problem and 'The Big Lie'
Vicki Bush
Supplementing college payments, I took on a 48-hour weekend job placing myself smack dab in the middle of real-world life and death circumstances.
A world of coercion. A world of threat and destructive force. A world of small-minded heavy fisted liars, bullies, and abusers. Their victims, coming from all walks of life, fled to the security and protection of “safe houses” – much like the one I worked at – run by my religious district, or local diocese.
More often than not, my job included taking bruised and battered “client” casualties to, or picking them up from, curtained off hospital emergency room cubicles after stitches were applied to heads and split lips, an eye pushed back into its socket, or a cast set onto fractured bones.