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Nobody ever sees the hard work. They've never heard that relentless alarm clock buzzing at 3am, after only a few hours of sleep. They've never stayed up all night navigating through a maze of differential equations, completely exhausted They never felt the gritty humiliation of urinating in a cup with a stern and obviously unhappy woman watching your every move. They've never been injured from a fall on a rock face with five pitches of hard climbing and three miles of rugged wilderness between you and rescue. They don't see that. They don't see the sacrifice and the pain. All they see is the polished product, as if it came from nowhere in a puff of smoke. 

She never saw any of that. All she saw was someone "living the life" as she liked to put it. But Alicia has always been self-centered, never taking the time to really get to know me. She never asked the hard questions. Had she done so, she would have known that I was never blessed with an easy life. I have worked since I was 13, doing every menial job you can imagine. I am not complaining. It's just a fact.

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