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"My career still strikes me as miraculous. That a boy raised on Marine bases in the South, taught by Roman Catholic nuns in backwater Southern towns that loathed Catholics, and completed his education with an immersion into The Citadelthe whole story sounds fabricated, impossible even to me. Maybe especially to me."
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