Played college rugby, track and field and football, earned a Rhodes Scholarship, won awards as a boxer, earned the rank of Captain in the US Army, completed Ranger school and flew helicopters. He turned down an opportunity to teach English Literature at West Point to chase his dream of becoming a songwriter by sweeping floors at a Nashville music studio, a decision for which his family disowned him, never reconciling with him.
I, on the other hand, quit Boy Scouts because I didn’t want to learn to tie all those damn knots.
BILL
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