My first career (call center manager and analyst, for 13 years from the mid 1980's to 90's) was so traumatic and spiritually destructive, I've cauterized nearly everyone I worked with from my life. And, we're talking about thousands of people over that timespan. When I encounter someone I knew through work from those days and they recognize me, I deny that it was me. I pretend I have "just one of those faces," that they're mistaken, and that I've never met them before in my life. Like it never happened.
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