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But none of the perks mattered. When Josh met my best friend from college for the first time, he described me as “a fish in a fish tank.” My friend’s exact words to me after the double date were “What the actual fuck.” I shrugged. I had only just begun to understand what had been troubling me so mu…

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WHEN I WAS TWENTY-FIVE, working as an analyst at Fidelity Investments, I made over three hundred thousand dollars. I took my bonus, went to the Bloomingdale’s outside of Boston, tried on dozens of pairs of shoes, and left empty-handed. Some part of me felt jealous of people for whom money seemed to…

ELMA
Compny doctor said he wouldn't come out but there's a fella in Pikeville on the Kentucky side that'll treat union men on the sly. He'll be here by noon.

MAN
He treat colored?

ELMA
If he treats union he'll treat colored.

PAPPY (VO)

In them days the coal company owned your camp houses, they owned your land, they owned most of the town and the people who run it.