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Author: Caleb Ross
Ethan wore his best suit, but the office smelled faintly like mildew and burnt coffee. The manager, a tired-looking man with kind eyes, asked, “Why do you want this job?”
Ethan hesitated. The real answer was rent. But instead he said, “I like helping people.”
The manager nodded, smiled faintly. “We’ve all said that once.”
Ethan didn’t get the job. But on the train home, he saw a woman struggling with a stroller and helped her lift it up the steps.
He realized, maybe for the first time, that he hadn’t been lying.
