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#myLAcommute These are my friends

#myLAcommute asks locals where they\'re coming from, where they\'re going and why.
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May 26, 2016

ZACHARY TAYLOR

I work at a day center for developmentally disabled people. I hang out with them, we do arts and crafts. I feed them lunch. Sometimes I change diapers. I help them throughout the day. It definitely takes a lot of patience and is pretty taxing, but all in all is very rewarding as well. Sometimes they have bad days and sometimes they have pretty good days, like any of your friends, and these are my friends.

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