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Darcy Dudeck's avatar

Wow Paul! This is an amazing piece of writing, and really took me back to the times when I worked in the jail doing those 15 minutes checks. I could literally feel ( and smell) almost everything you described here ❤️‍🩹

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Paul D'Arcy's avatar

You worked in the jail system? 😮 I didn't know that!

What was your vocation? What'd you do there?

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Darcy Dudeck's avatar

I was a Correctional Officer for 12 years. Then I moved into the community side of things where I worked as a Community Corrections Worker and then finished my career in justice as a Probation Officer. My career is where my PTSD came from ❤️‍🩹

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Paul D'Arcy's avatar

🤯

- that career path ain't no joke🫡

♥️

Thank you. If for no other reason than because you haven't been told that enough.

Thank you 🙏

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Darcy Dudeck's avatar

Thank you Paul…I appreciate you 😊

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Laura MacPherson's avatar

This is so, so good. God doing rounds — unvarnished truth, but there's hope in it.

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Paul D'Arcy's avatar

Thank you, Larz ☺️

If hope comes in tiny, fleeting, nearly imperceptible glimmers...then yeah, there's hope in it, in us - in all of us ♥️

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Karl Tame's avatar

Paul, Great/detailed/shocking essay!

"Imagine being so far gone that reality itself has become your enemy".

I just published an e-book this Friday!

Your referenced sentence is so true, in your essay, and in my story!

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