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A story for every misfit who ever thought they were the only ones without all the answers.
Robert O'Brien loves cars. Growing up in Dublin, they provided a welcome refuge from the human interaction he found so difficult. His father's race car, a BMW E30 M3 Sport Evolution he named the Beast, became his alter ego-powerful, admired, confident-and Robert began a quest to become a worthy owner. He completed a university degree, took courses to conquer...
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"Before 1862, Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain had rarely left his home state of Maine, where he was a trained minister and mild-mannered professor at Bowdoin College. His colleagues were shocked when he volunteered for the Union army, but he was undeterred and later became known as one of the North's greatest heroes: On the second day at Gettysburg, after running out of ammunition at Little Round Top, he ordered his men to wield their bayonets in a desperate...