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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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