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To: POKERSAM who wrote (979983)	11/8/2016 1:43:49 PM
From: koan	1 Recommendation Recommended By gronieel2 Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572932

I saw the world exactly like you do when I was young. After high school, I went to work in a paper bag factory in Emeryville California. I worked there for several years and I felt about Berkeley just like so many conservatives do. But I also remember not understanding them at all. After a couple of years and just as they were ready to promote me to an operator, I resigned and entered our local junior college. It was the only college I could get into because my grades were so terrible in high school. Mostly C's and D's and a few F's. But I had this insight while I was working at the factory that there were things that I did not know and I needed to find out what they were. I put my way through six years of university schooling and it changed my life. But I remember how that 19-year-old boy working at Ames Harrison Nevile paper bag factory saw the world at the time. One thing I remember, that startles me today, is that I did not know the difference between JFK and Nixon, or the Democratic and Republican Party. By the time I was 22, I knew the difference cold, and I've never voted for a Republican since. I am still working full time at 75 because my first priority was getting my kids through college and it was so expensive. I paid for everything including getting them cars and paying for their rent. But I saw that as my duty to my children.