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Emily Keene's avatar

I may have told you this before, but when I worked in eldercare, I had some clients who'd led fascinating lives. One, from Seattle, had been recruited for the Manhattan Project while studying at Princeton. After the war, he went to study at Cambridge (in England), and while enrolling, the registrar very seriously, asked him, "How is it that you, an able-bodied young man, managed to avoid military service during a major conflict?". Without missing a beat, Gil answered drolly, "I built the A-bomb". He ended up as a chemistry professor and traveled the world.

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Rob Crawford's avatar

It's one of my obsessions. I knew a a few of them when I worked at Harvard.

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