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“I’d bombed out of a couple of schools,” one student from Cleveland explains. “I was hard for the family to explain away. So my father pulled some strings and here I am in nowhere. They’re safe. I’m safe. I’m here after a piece of paper and if I wait long enough I’ll get it. Everybody’s happy.”
Yep, that was Parsons. And you can see how something like it today would have solved the problems of those desperate California parents.