James Axler

 

 

A GOLD EAGLE BOOK FROM WORLDWIDE

 

 

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* * * As we move together into fresh woods and pastures new, this one is for Liz. It comes with all my love and it will always come with all my love.

 

* * * First edition February 1996

 

ISBN 0-373-62530-8

 

Copyright 1996 by Worldwide Library.

 

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* * * Teachers are to life what morticians are to death. They rip out your guts, drain you of your vital fluids and then turn you into what they think you should look like to face eternity. Or they just do what they can to make life feel like eternity.

 

The Best Education Is No Education , by Jean-Paul Godard, Vanquer Press, Paris

 

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