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God Gave Me a Shovel, So I Must Dig

by Braxton Fuller

Oct 27, 2026
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The moment I decided to become a caver was the moment I decided to save myself.

I was working in memory care—assisting dementia patients in the basic activities of daily living, or, to put it more graphically, cleaning up immense amounts of shit off patients who were understandably angry and confused about what was happening to them. After the worst work…

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