Granted, we were in the border between Yuppieville Suburbia and Ag Country rather than the Concrete Jungle and this was almost a quarter century ago, and his parents were Upper-Middle Yuppie but polite the few times we met. His last words to me before he graduated were "Remember to help others as I helped you, as those who came before helped me and my mentors and their mentors before me," and he was skilled enough, and headhunted by tech programs from all over the country enough, that I'm pretty sure he was able to write his own ticket.
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