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Two truths and one lie: 1. I’ve worked answering the phone for gangsters. 2. I’ve worked processing bodies at a crematorium. 3. I’ve worked as a costume designer for a horror film.
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So... 1. At 16/17 I worked at a record store that turned out to be a front for organized crime. It was part of my duties to sit in the info booth answer phones. One was for the store & the other was the special line, where all sorts of angry unsavoury sorts demanded to speak to Rick or Ron. I had to take messages. I was offered drugs & loans if I ever needed (I didn’t) and got paid $3.35 an hour or something like that, in cash.
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2. At 25 I temped in the office of a vast cemetery/mortuary/crematorium. Among my duties were tasks such as scheduling cremations w/ local mortuaries—ensuring there were enough time slots for them to bring bodies in (this entailed going in there and counting the corpses)—then typing labels for the boxes of cremated remains and notifying the families for pickup, etc. Folks, you never know quite who you’ve got in the box.
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3. Truth adjacent: When I was 21, I was the assistant in the costume dept for a horror film by William Friedkin, called The Guardian, working under production designer Denise Cronenberg (David’s sister). Duties involved driving all over LA & the Valley picking up clothes, distressing them in the trailer, helping dress ... 
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... the actors. (That bit fell off somewhere!)
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