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work, but if you don't, I'm pretty sure I can manage somehow to see you through." I threw my arms around his neck and said I would scrub floors if necessary to help out. He garrumphed, "Oh, cut out the dramatics."
   Every afternoon then, after the last class in the grammar school, I went to San Francisco to look for a job. I found one, this time without meeting any bulldogs, a unique and rewarding position which will be described a little later.
   The autumn day came at long last when I hurried across the campus and registered for classes in the University. It is difficult to translate the sense of awe, of wonderment, the excitement and the high anticipation in that simple act. The emotion was almost too much to bear. I would not call myself a religious person in the conventional sense of the term, but I believe in a Divine Power and there were many times when I awakened in the morning and realized anew how fortunate I was, and I knelt to offer a prayer of thanks. The world was never brighter.
   As I look back, I see the pattern that rapidly took

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