With you I serve, with you I fall

A cashier works in a supermarket in Manzanares el Real.

"You only sleep twenty minutes, but you dream of some epiphany, a single flash of relief that gives meaning to what you have seen."

Taylor Swift wrote and sang these words this year with the people serving the community in mind while bearing the inevitable risk of falling.

People like his own grandfather, a fighter in World War II.

In the battle of Guadalcanal he saw things that he could never speak of afterwards.

With nobody.

That is the inevitable fall, by the way: even without injury for life, even without losing it, the ...

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