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My Wild and Winding Path to a College Degree Behind Bars

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It's incredible when you add it all up.  Mose Allison sang, "Y ou don't need to go to off-Broadway / to see something plain absurd."  Here's an example.  Guy can take a loan out for college, fail to pay up on time, lose his credit worthiness and lifestyle, feel ruined.  Or he can commit a petty crime or a major crime (who gives a sh*t for the purposes of the point I'm trying to make), and end up at San Quentin (!) and get a college degree. Come out owing n student loan money.  Hmmmm. What's behind the door or what's behind the curtain.  You choose.

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John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.

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