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I Havent Got a Dime for College   Growing up Ive met the best of people and Ive met the worst of people. My father has constantly been my hero. He loved, provided for and took care of two children and a sick wife everyday for twenty years. I look at his picture in my wallet separately day and wonder if I can ever measure up to him.   I thought my cousin had agreed to lend me $15,000 so that I could process a decent college. I agreed to sign a promissory note. I showed up at the New City  Brewery to sign the papers and crack up the fall in. I read the paper. It said for $30,000 I was selling him my interest in a vacation cabin our grandmother bought fifty years ago. The check however was only for $15,000. I dont understand. I pushed back his Mount Blanc pen and the unsigned contract.   Bill folded his arms. In 1956 your father borrowed $6,000 from my father and I want it back. He flashed a mean smile that I hadnt seen since 1957 when the bank took away my famil ys house. My father took me to my cousins house to ask for his outgrown clothing for me. That day my cousin handed me a book of account along with some clothes from his hamper and gave me this same vicious smile. The book was The Prince and The Pauper.   My father worked sixty hours a week for the next fifteen years nonrecreational off debts and sending his children to college. He stopped paying old debts when my mothers medical bills made that impossible. He died a few years later. Ive missed him every day.   I hadnt used that small cabin at the lake in a decade.