If ever there was someone who ought to volunteer, it is me. I'm a US merchant mariner, and so I'm just spending the days literally waiting for my ship to come in, waiting for my girlfriend to get off work, reading Daily Kos... just generally wasting time.
Yet somehow, I had never volunteered for anything.
All that's changed, and from now on I'll be volunteering every chance I get. Here's why:
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