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The most desperate period of my life, financially speaking, was my years as an undergraduate at Syracuse University, which I was able to attend on a New York State Regents scholarship. ..... My prevailing anxiety about failing my academic studies must have inspired overcompensation, for I was the valedictorian of my lass. Forty years later, going through my recently deeased father's papers, I would discover the amount of the New York State Regents scholarship that had so changed my life: it was five hundred dollars a year.
――明治学院大学（文学部英文学科、法学部政治学科）――2003年
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