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Author: LORA ASHLEY
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The whiskey burns going down my throat, but I welcome the pain because it is nothing compared to the humiliation I have suffered through these past few days. I still can't believe I have been suspended as if I'm some incompetent first-year professor who can’t manage his classroom. The shame is deep, disgusting, and it is shredding everything I have built over so many years.

My hand trembles as I pour myself another glass of whiskey, the amber liquid sloshing over the rim. My home office
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