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To: pocotrader who wrote (389059)	11/19/2018 7:00:02 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 542043

Yes, I had a comic book collection I should have hung on to. It would be worth a fortune today-lol. Scrouge Mcduck was my favorite and the yaks. Reading saved me as well. I had almost no high school education as I had to work so much, and only got into college because they had no requirements. In the beginning it took me a week to write a 500 word paper and I could not think for more than about 15 minutes. And the paper was shit. Today I can do that in about 5 minutes and would get an A But semester after semester I got better and better. And by the time I started graduate work at the U of Washington I was a straight A student and got the second highest grade in the hardest class I ever took from the Dean. It was all the foreign policy from the `1500's on, including second world war bombing patterns-lol. Our reading list was 60 books and that is where I had my advantage. I could read-lol. When I got there I was still in hippie mode with my suede climbing boots, white levies and Pennies blue work shirts. Many of my class mates were rich elites as this was a top graduate school. and many thought I as a clod. But when I aced that class my pedigree increased. Good old Bobby. And I started getting dates. He and I spent my freshman year in Pismo beach and every night he would sit in one chair and I in the other and we would read. I read to Kill a Mocking Bird that summer. Part of the reason I had confidence to start college was that I could beat Bobbie at chess; so if he could make it. I still remember we went to see Tobacco Road and he understood the ending wrong I think. We both also read Major Barbara by George Bernard Shaw and both mispronounced it all summer as Major Bar--bare-a-lol, We still laugh about that.