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MattSh

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19. Must be nice...
Fri Apr 3, 2015, 06:03 AM
Apr 2015

to have those types of choices.

It took me a good couple of years before I got something that resembled the beginnings of a career. Didn't help that I graduated into the Reagan recession.

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