A Legend In His Own Minefield

A Legend In His Own Minefield

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Pimping My Ride - Only One More to Go!

Pimping My Ride - Only One More to Go!

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John Mendelssohn
Jul 05, 2010
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My dad, who’d worked at an abattoir before Hughes Aircraft, had always urged me to pursue a career in something from which I’d come home smelling nice. I’d briefly considered the perfume counter at a swanky department store, but department stores had always made me strangely claustrophobic. I thought of auditioning to be a cantor at a Reform Jewish syna…

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