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I'm only fluent in English, although I’ve spent most of my adult life in West Africa and the Middle East. I married at twenty-one when my wife was sixteen. We've had six sons and four daughters in our thirty-some years together. After being expelled from school at sixteen, I lasted three months in the Army. Then, I got my equivalency and graduated university at twenty-two. Some time later, I also dropped out of seminary after spending a few years studying archaic languages and Reformed theology.
I’ve always been self-employed, mostly working in war-torn deserts and jungles. Our family is in the midst of the Iraq war, where my oldest sons and I work as ‘carpetbaggers', a term coined after the US civil war from the carpet bags used by entrepreneurs as inexpensive luggage. It's a derogatory term, suggesting an exploiter who does not plan to stay and is used to describe outsiders attempting to gain political office or economic advantage, especially in areas (thematically or geographically) to which they previously had no connection. That just about sums up my work.
I'm only fluent in English, although I’ve spent most of my adult life in West Africa and the Middle East. I married at twenty-one when my wife was sixteen. We've had six sons and four daughters in our thirty-some years together. After being expelled from school at sixteen, I lasted three months in the Army. Then, I got my equivalency and graduated university at twenty-two. Some time later, I also dropped out of seminary after spending a few years studying archaic languages and Reformed theology.
I’ve always been self-employed, mostly working in war-torn deserts and jungles. Our family is in the midst of the Iraq war, where my oldest sons and I work as ‘carpetbaggers', a term coined after the US civil war from the carpet bags used by entrepreneurs as inexpensive luggage. It's a derogatory term, suggesting an exploiter who does not plan to stay and is used to describe outsiders attempting to gain political office or economic advantage, especially in areas (thematically or geographically) to which they previously had no connection. That just about sums up my work.
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- I am a 52 year old man (Iraq)
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Take this broken table, please
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