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Alternate version of "My Career as a Lawyer"

"Growing up in the Bronx, I believed that Jewish families didn’t have pets."

"After 2 1/2 years (from September 1951 to January 1954) working full time as an organizer for Local 38 of the International Ladies Garment Workers Union (ILGWU), and going full time to NYU, ostensibly working toward a PhD in Economics, and having…

"It is 36 years, 10 months and 5 days since I stopped smoking."

"There are some things a father never forgets, and the birth of his first child is one of them."

"There is a spiritual which begins, 'Woke up this morning with my mind on freedom.' Well, I woke up this morning with my mind on the fact that this would have been our 56th wedding anniversary if Sylvia and I were still married."

"What follows describes my nine-year 'Herculean' struggle with my draft board to avoid the draft."

"When I was in elementary and junior high school, I don’t remember art classes."

"For some time, as I have been writing these pieces, ideas have been coming to me in the early morning while I am half asleep. The idea that occurred to me this morning was to describe the people and events I can still remember from my time in the…

"On my resume, I indicate that between June 1, 1954 and February 29, 1956, I was in the US Army."