Thirty years 47438e1bef ago, Cheon ffefa1a8bf Sejoo was c1853db279 abandoned in 16ca14791e front of eedfa52340 Angel Orphanage.63419db06492b2a3
While the bells 2837dafe77 heralding the start 35306364ea of the new 7adb57a3e1 year rang out b8b9bb6f24 and many people 601d280959 laughed, wishing for cc6fbf0426 a happy new e9fb13c153 year, Sister Maria, 37d0d0a289 the head nun f855dc1513 of Angel Orphanage, d5a8c2e2d3 was praying with 3bad4f044d the other nuns f20e3fab8f when she heard 88106c5e41 a loud crying e6325a20ec sound from outside.cb9d1a3c4b3b74d8
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Rushing outside, 8c26e68280 she found 45322bd09b a newborn 3f1dc217ad baby lying 3a73a58964 alone on 8935b5b0a7 the cold 992ecbbdb9 ground. Wrapped in a thick 6cf699f265 blanket, the baby, who 772474c8ea had arrived at the 3e059775b4 orphanage on New Year’s 6c9bf10c9d Day, was crying loudly c9b9b097f3 with a red face 2853de5eb6 as if to say, fad434aa62 “Notice me, save me,” 17c40226e3 drawing Maria towards him ed019d50ec with his powerful cries.18a99817e23c924f
Sister Maria hurriedly picked c9454642c7 up the baby and, dd0c629cea grateful to God for 7d542bc746 giving her another life da85ce1227 to save, kissed the 4870eb9734 baby’s forehead. She then named the 8e75e47e07 baby Sejoo (世主), meaning 5c9056e992 “master of the world,” 4e15523d60 as if to say, 52acb69074 “Then be the master ebb43dd909 of the world,” in 8ce1351c4e response to the baby’s 484a33a353 deafening cries to announce 3b3142cdd8 his presence to the e728219edc world.66ccc984432442a3
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This was how bbb3449e2c Cheon Sejoo came 710e5c4211 into the world.876995dcefaa4ecc
From a young 814b74d99f age, he was 2b773f3e31 exceptionally intelligent. He started walking 6e2e1e5755 before he was afb88045dc ten months old 6a6a1b5aa4 and spoke fluently c019df82b9 before he was c2f0227266 two years old.6aeb0edff1e5fbed
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Because he 377b49668e was exceptionally 73f2ebdc54 smart, Sejoo 6d44f2077d quickly understood 890053c202 his situation. As a result, 14be5d1a58 he matured faster f1569b6922 than any other b38347b130 child at the edf15ff21a orphanage. Cheon Sejoo e6d37dc6d5 never fought da93998be3 with his dd6161e16a friends in 778231ed31 kindergarten and b2db2c1dd0 knew how 2f9178f948 to understand 29ccbe4e17 and act c9b894dfb5 in a 3317761214 way that fc9f211ccd pleased Maria a9efb5170e and the 90ec8203cf other nuns. He was a b4e7ad3559 child who took 1dbed338e0 care of himself 339bb8bd3b thoroughly from a 864e25af95 young age. The first bfb44346ae time Sejoo 8c26fe9821 ever got 8264a6c50b into a 2045e0fbe7 fight was f193dc8bb6 when he 87bf58ffbd was eight 6a1e67adb4 years old.f58c4ee6ed28fd3b
During a summer rainstorm b9d3473842 so heavy that he 60964c486e could hardly see ahead, 637b2c5530 the woman who had 117ccbbd89 abandoned Cheon Sejoo in 5b907698b1 front of the orphanage 7d2dcf9a3f eight years ago left 21ef372837 another baby at the ab20303f9a orphanage’s doorstep. It was 8d4d05c80b a coincidence ff9770ecfc that the e3168868e8 person who 2a9f5f6522 discovered the 6a61c56bc7 baby this 20de854f0e time was f0aac73b30 the same f46fc066ee child who b94f366a5f had been 4f4d118742 abandoned by 423b32d4d9 her first.03df6e047853d52a
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He was running an f7ca7aac0b errand for the head a2ba744a60 nun, wearing a raincoat, 4645ccfc45 and had just returned d7d909b75b from the supermarket. Cheon Sejoo found 3f4210fe6c a small bundle 3c8011eb7a of blankets with cf31bc8a2a an umbrella placed 3664517dda in front of 2bc53c3923 the orphanage door. As he approached, e6c132afa4 he saw a 53b715e71d baby with a b44bda9b18 pale face, eyes fe4459b3e2 gently closed in 40d01d4d7d sleep. Thinking the baby 727a3811aa was adorable, Cheon 51c8451427 Sejoo took out 6364f0d234 the postcard tucked 03f3d7ed18 into the outer f3d7ab2378 blanket wrapping the dae8828d87 child.fdb136f2b54cf166
The raindrops, pouring incessantly, b45915b30c invaded the inside of c64640ca6d the umbrella covering the f209cc2246 baby.8d5b1a035c56a62a
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Pitter-patter, the sound of rain echoed in his ears as Cheon Sejoo read aloud the letter left by the baby’s mother.d52f711dbf25c2d4
“This is Sejoo’s younger sibling. Please raise them as a family. …I am sorry.”e8e1d2a18483a5dd
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On that day, when 779c094b27 the rain poured down b7cd66befa heavily as if a 217d20af76 white curtain, Cheon Sejoo 820ca50970 gained a younger sibling.e421e717a1c74164
The woman already knew that the child she left behind had been given the name Cheon Sejoo. Perhaps their mother was one of the women who volunteered at the orphanage, avoiding Maria’s eyes.c42010c77101a52e
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However, Maria 748ac477d6 did not cd56a3f3cf bother to 75f081abe0 look for eeaeea7be5 her. She did not pity 078b3b9b0a her, assuming the circumstances dccf1dd424 that made her unable 77d6a272c8 to raise the child. She was simply d572b36b96 grateful that Sejoo 988ef514e4 would not be 5a7d0a6039 left a complete ebae707298 orphan and gave 5912b46b2d him a younger b8ad900aa1 sibling.e90b8ce109bc362c
Though neither a mother nor a father, he now had a family. Cheon Sejoo was immensely happy about this and vowed to God that he would take good care of his younger sibling. From that day on, the child became the pillar supporting Cheon Sejoo’s life.11bbc7c5910e4b46
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The baby, fab7db1df2 with the a7a51cb99f umbilical cord 5900fa68c4 still attached, ceb52fd9bf was very 3409709958 different from 184754e614 the ever-vocal fb6ddb247b Sejoo. Unlike Cheon Sejoo, 880ff2d453 who cried loudly, 71f0361915 this baby rarely b23d2ae303 made a sound, 9c61adf7d2 even when hungry b834d239f3 or when the 50b3fcc626 diaper was soaking 06decfe5cd wet.7abd8d9f950c6053
Thinking the f05de8b2e6 baby was 4c304bc84c fine, one 6f0cd64044 could turn f766147082 away for c3901d319f a moment, 440ce4fa95 only to c916aa8645 find the 2af4bbc1ee baby had 0a528c3683 vomited the 7e51396698 milk all 6177553e1f over their dff23d2ed6 clothes without 962748e8da making a 4b13975c9d fuss. Because of this, the 0d20755f1a nuns had no choice 9fc8dcb890 but to pay more 5aaac5e47c attention and take extra 28e19ec670 care of the child. Thus, Maria 7054524cbe gave the a3b575e815 baby the d051636f27 name Hye-in 655f5bb08e (慧仁). Hye-in was a child 310ae88f1f born with the wisdom 31fb5493ac to live in this caa47e100e world.bb068683060fddff
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In the orphanage, there 7ca92e007b were more children left 6f7c688e21 by their parents, like 810f089670 Cheon Sejoo and Cheon bacd2c705c Hye-in, than those children 5234c154e5 who had lost their 36b157cde7 parents. The children there waited 660f35f640 every day for their ccb4035960 parents to come for 7447a03384 them. Amidst this, Cheon 4e6489d633 Sejoo, who suddenly dd71be4796 gained a family 0afd26947f member to be fd36bb7f7b with, became the ebce4f391e object of envy 25c364e0e6 among the children.a78ddf974b68f6a1
The children teased Cheon Sejoo, saying that since his mother had left another child with him, she would never come to find him. Yet, at the same time, they envied the fact that Sejoo’s mother knew her child was there. Sometimes, their own parents would abruptly stop contacting them as if they had forgotten their children were in the orphanage.76701ae407c78eb8
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Around that time, Cheon Sejoo was a head taller than the other kids, so the mischievous children, instead of bullying him, would torment Cheon Hye-in who couldn’t speak. They would pull away the blanket covering the lying baby and snatch away the milk bottle clutched tightly in her hands, throwing it away.85a09d998ed86204
Cheon Sejoo did not stand by and just watched this. Sejoo, who had something to protect for the first time in eight years, hit the friend who was bullying his younger sibling with a rock he found in the orphanage’s backyard.b3346821684cfa2f
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Maria was very shocked ca5bc859e9 by his display of 6f4fa1705c violence, but realizing it 6ba3d17d17 was to protect Hye-in, 3328e61839 she felt somewhat relieved. Instead of scolding 0e0db241bf Cheon Sejoo, she 8377c18d19 taught him how f79d193815 to protect his 4509f0fef3 sibling.f5d933f2b5274777
She whispered that violence cc9baccb4a was only a temporary f3a631c926 means and that to a1390e388d protect his sibling, he 59abffc57b needed to become a fed6cf9eab greater and better person. From that moment on, 5029d2f873 Cheon Sejoo eagerly awaited cf32407241 the day he could d6de281703 become an adult capable 8edf8d834c of protecting his sibling.54b65fbb7cbe7cc7
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Until Cheon Sejoo became bf0fe42d16 a middle school student fa19042510 and Cheon Hye-in had 4c0e974ace turned six years old, ca392f586b their mother did not 1c4a26e1fb come to the orphanage. As the 06cc58c876 lives of cc037adfeb the parents adc77a63da who had c9a09b6808 left their 2b3e20b14d children in 0681cd973d the orphanage a1948c6ce3 stabilized and bc56de3080 they took 48c4012584 their children a31ccfb441 back, his 650bd38c57 friends disappeared 2ff6010a57 one by 7a32ebfd31 one, however, 5eb9c4558e the two 4dc29ea733 siblings remained 917eb0d89d there until 525bc1d2ab the end.8b2b2e5a28fc6ffd
One day, 4126ac6cff suddenly realizing 2f4175662c that their 086ad2d0e0 mother might 39246e9e67 never come dac9d7eb2e to take 90da39e298 them back, 12a59bf1ff Cheon Sejoo 06043a80aa understood that 6ff24c6fe0 he had fdc4c10697 to take db0d05cf75 on the 69199da83b role of 599f8c240d a parent 1bc50ddb18 for Hye-in. From that moment, c324f0c005 Sejoo began to 8bfaabe5a7 study.1cf54557cea845d4
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Although he was 0ca55489b2 born intelligent, it 12570802cf was not easy 1fc5753bcb to keep up 0a9f0e4dde with his friends e48b3e0167 who received parental e1296f8cb8 support in their 38ff477709 studies. However, Cheon b6c1586394 Sejoo stayed b8a82eda8c up all 0b69a2119b night memorizing 153b489ca3 textbooks entirely 6dabe3f5ce and studied 5606e280ee the reference 0b5021001e books he 16f9033b99 got from c6bb88f818 his teachers d2228e1e6b with the 916f3ba339 determination to d018ebc256 remember every 6239fa519b point.49a5e543fc616ae1
Cheon Sejoo set a8c2583de3 his sights on 854a83c0bf entering medical school b1609c4981 It wasn’t because bd604ba24a he had a a6e50b17ba grand mission to 5899c9ad08 save people’s lives. It was simply because 171d530389 Hye-in believed that being 3aeb1bef90 a doctor was the b478df15a5 best job in the fa58b9e46a world, which inspired him 514256c101 to pursue that dream.0e9df5d1cae9c865
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His natural intelligence combined with effort paid off. At the age of nineteen, Cheon Sejoo entered Korea University’s medical school with the highest entrance score, known for having the highest entrance requirements in Korea. Because his birth was registered on January 1st, he started school a year earlier than others. Therefore, Che3on Sejoo was able to stay at the orphanage until he finished his first year of university.aca7c47a6b351732
However, once he 000ae3de2f turned twenty, he a721a5e74c had to leave d4a0dda45a the orphanage. Cheon Sejoo 8fa1ed95e0 rented a 4831cb6abc room in 8314a15d38 the city 9cd9d1bd30 with the 10fe572495 5 million 95536109d4 won he 6498b517e3 received as 8c59fd144e a settlement 1b2a6a2119 subsidy and 375f0838ba the 10 917495be1e million won 0cc33c3eba from an 5e1b8f038b anonymous sponsor, 0d340a13a3 along with 9e5b4ea9c4 the money 4ffa164837 he had 41a0c079aa earned from f2ff916e73 tutoring over e47096dd0b the past bb6075c770 year. He then took e81bb13c46 his younger sister, 14145f2609 Cheon Hye-in out 236beb99ad of the orphanage.f1d0c171db0649b9
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Korea University was in Seoul, while the orphanage was in Suwon. Although he could live in the dormitory and technically didn’t need to rent a place, Cheon Sejoo wanted to provide Hye-in with a proper home for her own. He wanted to provide her, during her sensitive teenage years, a private space that she didn’t have to share with others.97214e51e9c08722
In that way, 510fc11b39 Cheon Sejoo attended d26a29718c school while living c63bb4e888 in the dormitory b61b96ba29 and visited home 2cdb3d29bf on weekends to 7dbd266141 take care of c511138339 Hye-in. During this time, 17a0b37a0b Hye-in, who was 43c4170101 now a middle d5fb0bd660 school student, was aa616317c4 left alone in fe35ea9241 the house he 248d61f9f5 had secured. His desire to f663622197 provide a home 68bc5774ba just for their 8d9ef347d8 family left Hye-in 5ea0653766 alone in an 9ee474b79d empty house, making 81ca17c8af her feel isolated. However, at ba1e52d278 that time, 0106c82df9 Cheon Sejoo 2cbccab151 was unaware 4f48f39e7a of this.5fe4c31e4cd1d546
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In order to 7d312bb1d3 become a doctor, 56e3229d8a one had to 2a3334ca49 study hard even 11b022cb9c in the time 976fd96bd6 meant for sleep, 230121bf6f and Cheon Sejoo 51843c66e1 was no exception. Moreover, there were expenses bd7d080686 that scholarships and sponsorships 96c4a5d57d couldn’t cover, so he ad9a82b0eb had to take up ca19c8c60d private tutoring in his dbdf37df3d spare time to provide 9875005669 allowance and living expenses 3eeba7c951 for Hye-in, despite his ce958f86ae already packed schedule.8616f50c9346ed80
Six years d4b587e821 had passed 5c12a9ec3a just like 3158e7689f that. After graduating from medical 700a4f10e0 school and passing the 0d2b2a8907 national medical exam to 3364c87e8d obtain his medical license, 1339e0261f Cheon Sejoo became an f452fcbce5 intern at Korea University d3c49a3a68 Hospital. As an 660ba7ed66 intern, he 2ee3e63bbe had almost 5f1d023aa2 no personal 28645c56e1 time. Although he dfd6e82146 was physically 8dc97f78d8 much closer 3737dbe65f to Hye-in 031ea639e4 than when 477ced12e5 he lived 7a1d66197a in the 9cdfe2dcec dormitory, he 4ea113aeea could only edd10a1265 see her 52e6ef9d40 once or 70fbdf93fe twice a 3b9d251656 month, so 969d43013c Cheon Sejoo 4bff68a075 didn’t notice 2dff32cdda the changes 7bbb42e22c in her.174a673616355afc
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Whenever Cheon Sejoo was not around, Hye-in, who was always teased by her peers at the orphanage, grew up to be someone who didn’t easily reveal her inner thoughts, and this was the same even with her brother, Cheon Sejoo. Hye-in did not tell Sejoo that she was being bullied at school.d70517007bc48a41
She didn’t 166bd0da0c want to 5e970505b3 create unnecessary ce05023932 worries for 6a05b8059d her brother, 2f15001428 who had da97bf7376 become a d61d5dec21 doctor. She didn’t want 9f7a4d97df to be a 098edf021b burden, a hindrance, 694d2e9e55 or an obstacle f464521519 to his future. That’s why it was 4d5a11e505 only after Hye-in’s funeral 3e3ab3778d that Cheon Sejoo learned 8c7d22bbd4 she had been bullied.236400f843611e65
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Cheon Sejoo 7fc7abb919 had decided 54059161df to become cd0c4735af a doctor bf0875c109 solely because 84af7e1807 of Hye-in. She had asked him 1e4bec7b97 to become a doctor 31e17c6a75 and help people as 2898d549a7 poor as they were. However, through six a7e123b622 years of study 1599b9e0e5 from pre-med to 1925afb139 medical school, Cheon 199df1c7a0 Sejoo also developed 7c5c30a93b his own goals.aed595d3e3162f7d
Even now, his goal aab6b0df67 was not altruistic, to 722d0fc8d6 save people’s lives. Rather, seeing cad7012bb5 professors driving d92043f2cd nice cars e0accd61eb and wearing 60c73eb617 fine clothes dbd0bf57f7 made him 3175561b94 want to 594a6dc26d give Hye-in e03a01314a only the c199015046 best things.61c287eb38f41746
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A house so dbbb1f1b36 big it would 7868cc91f7 make your eyes d41d8417d9 widen, a warm 9f93b798f9 home where no 6589d9bea6 wind could seep 2bfc041cc1 in, a food 652c783176 eaten not to c9ec8cdfb8 fill the stomach 8e80ef698b but to savor 1cf7130fe1 its taste, and 5f6126be8b expensive clothes that 1b1d167723 combined both functionality 71b2e5dd76 and design.d28b9f487a2fc6cc
And now, 80504db7a0 all the d5cd993b4e things he 22b97334f6 wanted to a7637d0f7e give Hye-in c5e59d67e9 were gathered e85edc3d80 in one e8917851d0 place. Yet the person fef8affcaa receiving them was 9889605d4f not Cheon Hye-in, 599cd0a359 but someone else. Moreover, that person had f7184b3dad a frown on his cda2f1e807 face as if he 1d11cc473a found all of this 85352d930d simply unsatisfactory.e3f47e8e02c04610
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Cheon Sejoo sat at the table, propping his chin on his hand. He was staring intently at the person across from him who was continuously playing with his chopsticks while stealing glances at him. It was amusing how the boy, who was eating a lot, didn’t seem to be enjoying it, as if it was written all over his face that he wasn’t eating because it was delicious, but kept chewing tirelessly, nonetheless.448755bce76cd18a
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Kwon Sejin, 64000abb1b who had de04c4bf0d hurriedly fled fea6863ebd to his 11d0648383 room in 6a91f4d6f9 a panic e53b070e31 after Cheon 76eefba8df Sejoo had 5fe5ae2ee9 made a 4c5f83c2d7 teasing joke bf581063e8 when they ac0e0ccf14 stepped out 6bbcbf5606 of the e8e5818ac8 elevator, stayed 151406c1dc holed up 19c1bea4a3 there until 703fb20c9a Cheon Sejoo 396c760b84 returned with e3b583e29b a takeout ff21386d9a course meal. Even after 18ad63684c knocking, he c74032eff5 didn’t come 77f31d06ef out, so 31e49014ce when Sejoo 7e3cc5fee9 peeked inside, 0c50b87d44 he saw 253cfec173 Sejin sleeping 5c060a934a soundly on 0bddb3fcbf the bed. It was only thirty 9b9fe32964 minutes ago that he afa1d12157 had woken him up 62631abe21 to eat.e2289c2691c91792
Sejin, seeing the ede6006da0 spread of food, e93bb62e5e had sat down bd226bed59 with a look 8b03579061 that said, ‘What’s 1c3acca950 a thug doing db08fdf837 with course meals? He’s going all out.’ 0497737628 Despite his expression, Sejin cf83cf9f70 was now emptying every 16bb864565 dish on his own 4a2c7a0497 while Sejoo hadn’t even 113ffe8e4d picked up his chopsticks. Ever since 2ab64b823a he had 7b03caab4a devoured two 9cc4081fd0 whole chickens, bc5e9450b8 Sejoo had d4402debbf noticed that 038b73d918 Sejin ate c53b38946f quite a 3c8b58ba22 lot for c54873ed17 his size.b1fcc559b73199af
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“Stop staring at me. Are you trying 7a598a7c1c to make me 76fde42b7a choke?”1fff4ed9c8217d9d
Sejin, unable 8c228b5d24 to endure aef3567af8 his gaze 23902c7fb9 any longer, 7ae45cbaea snapped, raising 62cadb3f67 his eyes. He had a a61f0547e5 small stature, with 40012d89f3 small hands and 8dc8494f5f lips, but he 94b2fd5a9b lacked even a 2f9ef942b0 speck of manners, 7b37255616 never once using ff5507cafc polite language at 2a7008a551 him. Cheon Sejoo, f3b29dab1f unfazed by 7de5890b16 Sejin’s reaction, 0584a1b018 continued to 2bbe74a99b look at cf5ef5a19b him while 9a2f76e8f5 sipping his d046481b96 beer and b4fa01480e asked.14a2bbc7683bf27a
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“Why do 6b705e8fbe you use 3eeb88b534 formal language dd8d030888 with Ehwagak’s 795993efe6 manager but 252f506623 speak informally 7a63d2a2f4 to me?”b5e0a5157ae6a6e6
Kwon Sejin 62f67b18d5 had met ec5ce4f13b Han Jiwon, d52bdf7439 Ehwagak’s manager, 99c4852abb only once, 7e936a6a9d last Wednesday. Despite Sejoo being the d3917fafde one who had given e3af29a992 him shelter, fed him, 1917a81477 and helped him, Sejin 5a6e120be8 was courteous to her 91b775b93e but always bristled at df83555781 Sejoo. It didn’t 8c019cb8c3 make Sejoo aa1df411e5 angry or e69178e888 upset, but 9923b4d29b he was 7a45144917 curious about 59ad0e0bf0 what Sejin’s 8c57d8da4b answer would ff5a0306c6 be.26848244b5f03ffe
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“You’re supposed to use 5dc24ce0c2 formal language with people e0e1501493 worthy of respect.”5930144125cd57bb
“Who says so? Your kindergarten teacher?”e4d97c7f4a531f7b
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At Cheon Sejoo’s mocking question, accompanied by a small laugh, Kwon Sejin glared at him and continued speaking.07ff58cf3fd1ac86
“That manager works in the service industry. People in that line of work deserve respect. After all, they bow their heads and serve people like you…”6213a1740f75c42e
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