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As a kid I would get my parents to drop me off at my local library on their way to work during the summer holidays and I would walk home at night. For several years I read the children's library until I finished the children's library. Then I moved into the adult library and slowly worked my way through them.

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I don't know how one would define an affirmative-action hire. I ultimately do not know what role race played in my hiring.

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