My family turned my failure into a public joke, so I waited until they realized the joke was on them.

her before she finished.

“Fired again?” Linda said. “Emily, you are thirty years old. At some point, the problem is you.”

That night, Emily sat on the bathroom floor and called an attorney whose number she found through a whistleblower protection website. His name was Marcus Reed, and unlike her family, he listened carefully.

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