If you had asked me in high school what I wanted to do with my life, the last thing I would have predicted would have been a history teacher. I probably would have said an accountant, since it was one of the few classes in which I thrived. This meant that I ended up with a final grade of B.
I had very little interest in history in high school. I can tel…
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