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Part One: The Ballad of Bill Gates

Behind the Bastards

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How to Stop a Bully From Eating the Encyclopedia

His parents liked that he was a big reader, and they would reward his hunger for knowledge by offering to buy him any book he wanted. He grew up supernurty and was bullied from an early age for beinga and weird and obsessed with books. His dad attempted to counter this by making young bill work as a greeter at their parties and as a waiter at professional functions for his exhausting family.

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