My Father Had Not Even Completed High School When He Started As An Office Boy Working For The Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, And I Am Not Sure That My Mother Completed High School. - SearchQuotes

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My father had not even completed high school when he started as an office boy working for the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, and I am not sure that my mother completed high school.

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