Marcus D.
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I was a firefighter for sixteen years. There is a version of this story where that makes it easy to prove, and that is not the version I got. Post-incident exposure, documented, and still four years of appeals. The reactions now are to ordinary things, cologne, a candle in a restaurant, the laundry aisle, and there is no dramatic incident to point at when someone asks why. That is what people don’t understand about sensitisation. The big event opens the door. Then everything ordinary walks through it for the rest of your life.
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