Wright reminisced about how he grew up going to Norfolk Tides games and developed a genuine affinity for the Mets and its minor league affiliate.

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Jeff Skoll, a billionaire thanks to his ground-floor shares of eBay, writes about how as a middle class kid in Canada he grew up wanting to be a writer who told stories that make a difference in the world.

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Investigators "asked you about your personal life, how you got along with your brothers when you grew up, " he said.

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In a strangely brilliant post to her blog, Glass explains how the plight of Knut, an adorable baby polar bear that the world fawned over until he grew up, eerily parallels the plight of child stars.

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