I was working seventy to eighty hours a week; holidays, weekends, even “vacations” became a time to advance. I noticed that most people came back from Christmas vacation heavier and out of shape. So, the holidays, for me, became an opportunity to extend my lead. I made it a point to come back every New Year in better shape than I left the last. I would work out and sometimes even abstain from Christmas dinner as act of personal discipline. Darrell loved and praised my austerity. “If you not eatin’, then I’m not eatin’,” he would say. I would spend the days studying and writing, reading a book,
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