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When it came time to go to college, I had been accepted for Harvard when my father was offered the position of head of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company office on the west coast, and we moved to San Francisco.

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Als es Zeit war, aufs College zu gehen, war ich für Harvard aufgenommen worden, als mein Vater die Position des Leiters der Metropolitan Life Insurance Company an der Westküste angeboten hatte und wir nach San Francisco gezogen sind.

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