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The article, authored by Robert Samuels and Lydia Sidhom, focuses on the struggles of Kia Mills, who feels her recent diploma is unhelpful as she faces difficulties in finding employment. It highlights her sense of frustration and the emotional weight of job searching, symbolized by her diploma being stored away and her isolation while applying for jobs.
Democracy Dies in Darkness
23 min
By Robert Samuels and
LITTLE ROCK — Kia Mills kept her latest diploma in a bag stuffed in her closet. The expensive piece of paper had little use as she uploaded yet another résumé while sitting on her gray couch on a recent gray day, a lone candle lit on her coffee table.
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