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ter thought I was __1__ and when I was 14, he said, “You are __2__ going to be anything but a failure.” After five years of __3__ jobs, I fell in love with a very nice middleclass girl. It was the best __4__ that could have happened to me. I decided to do something positive with my life because I wanted to prove to her what people said about me was __5__, especially her mother, who had said to me, “You have failed at everything you have ever done.” So I tried hard with my __6__ and went to college, my first novel __7__ while I was at college. 綜合能力提升四 After college I taught during the __8__ in high schools and attended evening classes at London University, where I got a __9__ in history. I became a lecturer at a college and was thinking of giving up that job to write full