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"You can go to Bronx Science and for a moment all other things are suspended. Afterward we'll split up and go where our footholds in society take us […] but there is that feeling of this amazing squad of students […] There are those kids coming out of Fieldston who have read Dostoyevsky and analyzed and I didn’t. But I got these experiences and these friends that transformed my understanding of the city, which changes your life."
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