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Separating from the military takes months, and will almost certainly be complicated by a red flag in one’s record for disobeying orders.
Other factors also mattered: the number of trusted adults in one’s childhood, early encounters with police, mental health and adverse experiences.
A young man, also in his 20s, says there are low-level jobs available but it's hard to find decent work in one's area of expertise.
From BBC
A Rilkean memory might emerge as a bodily tendency, or what one French philosopher described as an organic habit—moving about a certain way in one’s childhood home thanks to long forgotten idiosyncrasies of the house, like a high step or a creaky door.
Studies have shown that volunteering can be good for your health in one’s later years.
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