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Old 10-17-2013, 08:21 AM
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Tough age. What worked for me was a summer working the strawberry fields -- very hard labor with little reward. At the end of the summer my mother gently told me the choice was mine -- a life of hard labor or a career indoors. I preferred the indoor career.
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