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Entrepreneur (For a High School Classmate)

His part-time job is dialysis: three days a week,
roughly four hours a day.

He works for himself and wife,
weekly gets paid
with a new week of days for treatment.

Technicians and machines are rented.
It's only time that is lent.

AgingSuzi PeelFebruary 9, 2016
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