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A story that everyone knows even if they don’t remember the author’s name.
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Lynn Peril is the author of Swimming in the Steno Pool: A Retro Guide to Making It in the Office. She lives in Oakland, California.
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She was devoted to comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable.
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Even if you didn’t know his name, you knew his “Kustom Monsters.”
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