Doing the Paperwork
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It just wasn’t his strong suit. He hardly did it. He barely kept it, and as he got older he cared even less about the consequences of not doing his paperwork. It wasn’t a form of learnt absent-mindedness or elderly decline. It wasn’t a kind of shallow front or brittle bravado but a cussed indifference to authority, a refusal to live with fear of any kind. The old man really didn’t give a fuck what happened.
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