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" The first 10 years of my education were spent at a Catholic school in Springfield, Mass. "

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" It's a funny thing about being raised Catholic and then going to Catholic schools with nuns - the cliche about the mean nun was not what I had at all. They were very, very smart, devoted individuals. "

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" I had been a premed student, and the way you got through premed was to work extremely hard and then harder. "