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American History 1988

``` Debt, economic decline, immigration; hippies, anti-government, freedom. At the end of the 1980s, a wave of change encompassed a country boy from the Rust Belt. As the gate for upward mobility was on the verge of closing, he struggled to move forward. College, Silicon Valley, entrepreneurship; HP, Apple, Microsoft. To become part of the 1%, or even 0.1%, he sacrificed a lot, but also gained a lot. ```

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Chapter 60

As emails were sent out from the backend of Price's List, many people surfing the internet in the university town received this message.

"A row house on Erie Street for only $650 a month? Oh~ that looks nice." Francis, who was recently planning to move out of campus, noticed the deal. He was already a junior and now had the right to do so.

If it weren't for the university's rule that freshmen and sophomores had to live in school dormitories, Francis would have moved out of campus on the first day of school.

He was from New York on the East Coast. His father was a doctor and his mother a high school teacher; his family's financial situation was typical of the elite class.