Last Monday, I had my first day at the News-Daily. Strangely, it also was the first day of school for all of the kids in Clayton County.
The coincidence seemed to rejuvenate my adolescent experience of first day jitters, which sent me into a gut-wrenching self-analysis of my acquiescence to social norms.
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