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  • Lion's Roar

    BETTER WITH BUTTER

    May 18, 2021 2 minutes

    IN MARCH OF LAST YEAR, just after San Francisco started sheltering in place, my teaching position came to an abrupt halt. The school would finish the spring semester, but there’d be no fall 2020 incoming class. The adjunct faculty? We were all being laid off.

    I loved my job, and it was wrenching

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