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Literaryhero posted a story about plumbing and people, and a man called Fran by John Jeremiah Sullivan, and it's a great plunge into life, the loo, and everything.

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I am a woman and a journeyman plumber with a B.A. in Statistics from the University of Chicago ... cnidaria posted a fantastic answer to shapes that haunt the dusk's Ask Metafilter question about switching from the academic track to trade work in your 30s.