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LanternWaste

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34. Microfilming land title certificates.

Wed Oct 23, 2019, 12:53 PM

Oct 2019

And that's all it was. Grab a sheet from a stack and put it on the machine, push three or four buttons, take it off the table and put in another stack. Over and over and over and over and over and over...

But it was an after-hours job, no one else at the office park that late into the evening, and had a great outdoor atrium I'd take my breaks in and smoke a joint or two while blasting Springsteen from my boombox.

God bless the mid-eighties.

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