Kicked Out For Lacking A Degree, I Let Success Speak Instead

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I left Salem the next morning. My flight departed at 6:15 a.m. from PDX. I sat by the window, watching thin clouds dissolve over the Oregon sky I once thought I belonged to. Not anymore.

Three years earlier, I’d bought a house on the outskirts of Clearwater, Florida—three bedrooms, red tile roof, white paint, a backyard full of grapefruit trees continue reading …