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//---> Walking a Tightrope. pt 2.
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Rachel Dennis transferred to Las Vegas from a postal carrier job in rural Utah. The work was difficult, yet steady. It paid for a new house and would allow her to retire soon. She learned the city block-by-block, doorbell-by-doorbell, on foot.
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Brent Matthews was partner at Mason Russell Investments downtown. He wasn't sure why Cam'el recruited him. The Circle seemed overtly concerned with identity politics and social strategies, while he preferred following the numbers. Brent didn't see much that home ownership and a living wage couldn’t resolve.
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Racine Abtar's girlfriend worked at an agency for transgender youth, seeking to reduce their eating disorders, self-harm, cutting, suicide. Over dinner, they discussed ways people were exploited around town and how they planned to use this opportunity.
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Karl Jefferson liked systems and science, maps and historic documents -- though his mind was also easily distracted, floating between minute details and big picture questions. Maybe it was fate. Karl's mom named him after a world-renowned astronomer. His dad's family was related to that distinguished president who once owned slaves.
