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Poet. As a young boy, he showed signs of his mother's gift for language and his father's talent for oratory. While his father wanted him to become a lawyer he did not follow that path. Instead he quit school at the age of 16, traveled the Midwest as a sign painter for a while, then a stint with a medicine salesman. He...

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