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When Bukowski did quit the post office in January 1970, Martin suggested he write a novel. Twenty-one days later, Bukowski finished his first novel, telling a shocked Martin, "Fear allows you to do anything." Martin went down to De Longpre and picked up what became Post Office. "To this day, it remains his most popular book," says Martin...
Aside from being the setting for numerous poems and novels, the bungalow was also where Bukowski decided to quit the post office. "It was killing him," said Martin, who asked Bukowski how much he needed to survive every month. Martin handed Bukowski his favorite pen, and then Bukowski tallied his needs: cigarettes, rent, child support, booze, food. Adding up to a mere $100 per month, Martin promised that much in perpetuity. They shook hands on it, but the pen disappeared into the Bukowski's mess, never to be found again...
...retired Chicago inner-city teacher and principal, I have long felt that conscripting high school dropouts in national service might reduce gang activity. Perhaps we should send teens who quit school to training camps that, like F.D.R.'s Civilian Conservation Corps in the 1930s, would be far from cities so that gang ties would be cut. Do we need help in the national forests with multiple projects...
...once ripped up his San Francisco backyard to plant Pinot Noir and Syrah vines. He found that lots of people shared his desire for a wine-country lifestyle but lacked the millions of dollars needed to make their dream come true. Tired of his career in software marketing, he quit his job and created Crushpad in 2004 to connect amateur winemakers with West Coast vineyards. It's the best of both worlds. Customers get access to far finer grapes than they could grow themselves, at a fraction of the cost, along with on-site expertise to guide them through...
...back to everyday life is never easy after a long summer break. But few will find it tougher than the McCann family. Four and a half months after vacating their pretty Leicestershire village in the heart of England, Kate and Gerry McCann and their two-year-old twins finally quit Portugal's Algarve coast for home yesterday, leaving a list of unanswered questions behind them...