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David Brenner came from a poverty family.When he finished his school, he was given a wonderful present.“Some of my friends got new clothes and a few rich boys even got new cars.” He remembered, “My father reached into his trousers pocked and took something out, I held out my hand, and he let my present drop into it-a nickel!”
“Dad said to me, ‘Buy a newspaper with that.Read every word of it.Then turn to the classified section and get yourself a job.Get into the world.It’s all yours now!”
“I always thought that was a great joke my father had played on me until a few years later when I was in the Army, sitting in a foxhole, and thinking about my family and my life.It was then that I came to know that my friends had got only new cars, or only new clothes.My father has given me the whole world.What a great present!”
注:nickel五分硬幣;foxhole戰(zhàn)壕
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