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How Mark Twain became Mark Twain: The amazing story of the lectures that made him a superstar - Salon.com


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He was broke, tired of being a freelancer and bored in California. One trip and some lectures changed everything

Ben Tarnoff

There's a lesson in there somewhere. 

i love these STORIES/documentations of those moments in prominent figures' own histories that contributed to their rise, that indicate transformation

"Becoming"

San Francisco?!

Yes, did you not know that?

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