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ANTONIO ROMERO: The Ultimate Outlier
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On the page in the yearbook called "Sanctioned Insults," which was supposed to be filled with light-hearted jibes about the graduating seniors, the Dream/Reality written for Antonio Romero was DREAM: systems analyst REALITY: systems analyst. That may seem prophetic for a guy who wrote his first line of code when Gerald Ford was President and has spent more of his life in the tech industry than he ever intended, but Taylor Mali's conversation with Antonio will reveal just how piercing it actually was. IMPORTANT FACT: Antonio accepted an offer to attend MIT, but then reneged and went to Princeton instead at the urging of Bruce Breimer, the college guidance councilor (who would have then had to explain himself to MIT)! That was one of many interventions that tried (in vain?) to offer Antonio the option to pursue ANY of his myriad other passions.
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