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    The Unemployed Minimalist
    The Unemployed Minimalist
    The Unemployed Minimalist
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    The Unemployed Minimalist

    By Barry Rachin

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    The Hindu mystic, Krishnamurti said it was no measure of health to be adjusted to a profoundly sick society. Stumbling across this sobering truth, Ned Ogilvie has decided to drop out of college – resign from higher education but not the merry-go-round of life.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarry Rachin
    Release dateJun 25, 2018
    ISBN9780463805909
    The Unemployed Minimalist
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    Barry Rachin

    About the AuthorBorn in Boston, Massachusetts, Barry Rachin spent several years stationed in Yokuska, Japan as a Navy medic caring for casualties during the Vietnam War. He has studied at the University of Jerusalem, lived on a kibbutz for a year and holds a degree in clinical counseling from Simmons College. A self-taught woodworker, he presently lives in Attleboro, Massachusetts with his wife and two daughters.

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      The Unemployed Minimalist - Barry Rachin

      The Unemployed Minimalist

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      Barry Rachin

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      The Unemployed Minimalist

      Copyright © 2018 by Barry Rachin

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      This ebook is licensed for your personal enjoyment only. This ebook may not be re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional copy for each person. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to Smashwords.com and purchase your own copy. Thank you for respecting the hard work of this author.

      This short story represents a work of fiction. Names, characters, places and incidents are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or locales is entirely coincidental.

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      The Unemployed Minimalist

      Iris Murdoch was preoccupied in the rear of a forty-foot greenhouse watering a row of lemon verbena, when her supervisor, Emma Thomas, approached. There’s a young guy out by the cash register applying for work, the woman noted with a pinched expression.

      Iris lay the hose aside and dabbed her forehead with a slender wrist. The noonday sun looming directly overhead, temperatures had inched up close to a hundred degrees in the sauna-like space. Is there a problem?

      I dunno, Emma hedged. "He’s sort of weird… like a spring that’s wound just a bit too

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