They Called Me A Nobody—Until Someone Said “Welcome Back, General”

with unnecessary force, “what do you do again? I mean currently. Now.”

I kept my face neutral, the expression I’d perfected over years of briefings where showing emotion meant losing control of the room. “I teach.”

“Teach,” he repeated, like the word tasted strange in his mouth, like it was foreign. “That’s what you’re doing now. Teaching.”

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