"The industry said I was a fool--looking at wood and thinking I could machine it like metal, " he says.

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Because I thought was I just being made a fool of, and the third time I just wanted to know whether I was I going to be in there and come out in my coffin.

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One of the reasons I didn't act a fool when I was in school was because I feared my father taking the belt to my butt, and that was enough to keep me on the straight and narrow.

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Instead, I saw a thief and a crook, an ordinary fool who got caught and was now in prison trying to retain whatever dignity and connection he could find.

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But like a fool I kept it in, just because it was really, really interesting, and had really, really happened.

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