“But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diploma and eyes like piss holes in the snow, as everyone tells me.”

— Frank McCourt , book 'Tis

'Tis (2000)

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Irish-American teacher and Pulitzer Prize–winning writer 1930–2009

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