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kimbutgar

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10. It is an interesting job

Reply to QueerDuck (Reply #6)

Fri Nov 28, 2025, 07:22 PM

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Moving seniors to new living facilities, and then clearing out their homes and the saddest clearing out after someone has passed. I cleared out a woman's who was pediatric nurse only 74 and died of a pulmonary disease. She was a heavy smoker and was in AA. She looked like a nice person and weird things were happening as we were clearing out, items falling for no reason and sand on the floor that wasn’t there before!

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