Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is comm…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!, CNIB, 197
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Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!, CNIB, 197

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