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" The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner. "

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" I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation. "

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