Audience: Sheila Hammond

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Oh! That's so young... You must have been the youngest person at your workplace for a while.

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[...looks at when this thread is. but they shrug.]

I was. I passed the bar not long before that. [like that's a problem and a reason why he wasn't working earlier.]

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[this audience is very ripe]

The bar? [...] Wait. Hang on. You passed the bar at twenty?!

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Yes? ["what, like it's hard?"] I was active in court not long after that.

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I suddenly understand so much now.

[It is kindness week so this just comes out. Kind of awed, when it is not.]

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...[they are not sure what to make of that, so there's a bite of their sandwich and a slow nod.]