we sat next to each other at a cle seminar and you drew cartoons in the margins of your notes and each one was about wanting to quit

Anonymous · 2026-04-08T21:46:15.620Z

there is a specific loneliness that comes from being surrounded by people who are all performing competence nobody admits they are struggling so everyone struggles alone to the opposing counsel who said take care of yourself after a particularly brutal deposition you didnt have to say that nobody made you thats why it mattered to the clerk who noticed i was having a panic attack before my first argument and brought me water without saying anything you saved me from the worst day becoming

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