for free

Local company Midland Masonry carried out the repairs for free, it finished the majority of the work on Friday and will return to repoint the cracks on Monday.

“My favorite thing is selling something for the exact amount I bought it for. It’s like I rented it for free. My second favorite thing is not having to move it myself.”

Elise says: “I was getting about £900 for free as well as working part-time. I had so much expendable income and now I have none.”

Some 20 years later, another Times writer, sounding like an anti-DEI whiner, wrote approvingly about diligent Indians grateful for free schooling and medical services, and disapprovingly about the Indians who weren’t.

During my years writing about comics — often for free — I built relationships with people I adored.