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Papa Hemingway in Cuba - Changed My Life

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    I was just an ignorant bum who read a lot at libraries to stay out of the rain.

    You know, mostly day labor jobs and flophouses.

    And then, after years of hustling, I finally... I managed to...

    to weasel my way into a job on the sports desk

    of a local paper in northern California, which was a dream,

    it's just, the only problem was, I didn't know how to write.

    I mean, I could read okay, but to actually type out sentences and spelling

    I didn't know anything.

    In the newspaper business, this could be a problem.

    Yeah, the city editor found it particularly amusing

    when I spelled the word "maybe," M-A-B-E.

    He called me a liar and then he fired me.

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