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History

Much to my shame, I spent an enormous amount of money putting my way through college so I could earn a BA in history, which will get me about as far as just leaving all my application forms blank when I apply for a job.

Looking back, though, I don’t really have any regrets. It was a nasty few years of financial hardship. The rest of my family had been bankrupted by my father’s shenanigans when he left in my youth, so this high-priced private school in West Virginia where I found myself taking those first collegiate steps was a financial nightmare. I got loans and student aid up to my eyeballs, and worked myself to the ground just so I could afford books and, you know, scotch. But, in the end, it was fun. That’s what counts, eh?

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