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From about kindergarten until fifth grade, I spent my summers at Happy Time Daycare Center. My parents both worked grueling jobs in social work (as full-time counselors), so that meant eight-hour days for me at a place that was anything but happy. I remember the mornings. Tired, I would trudge across the asphalt parking lot to the smudged glass doors of the entrance, dreading each and every day, trying any way I could to get out of Happy Time.
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Hensley, B.O. (2017). “Brain Dead”. In: Hartlep, N.D., Hensley, B.O., Braniger, C.J., Jennings, M.E. (eds) Critical Storytelling in Uncritical Times. Constructing Knowledge: Curriculum Studies In Action. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-005-9_8
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