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Why disaster work creates personal disasters

I am a FEMA coordinator and I have been deployed to disaster zones for eleven months out of the last eighteen and my teenage daughter told me she stopped missing me because it hurt too much and now I do not know if I am helping people or abandoning my family.

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Helping disaster victims keeps pulling you away from your own family.

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