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Now, he hopes he can continue practicing his new profession until he’s 70.

“Or are people in her profession able to foresee such calamities and avoid them?”

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And not one of them was a teacher or a nurse, the professions that were most common for Colored career women.

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Many of the world’s first shipwreck discoveries were made by people who practiced one of the oldest of all professions—sponge diving.

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But Mercedes wanted to share their story to highlight her husband’s profession, one of the most dangerous for undocumented immigrants in Southern California right now.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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