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"Seafaring pays you $3000 a month," asked red-bearded Larry, manager of the day shift, "and you want to be a cab driver?" Larry looked intensely between my application form and me, as if suspecting I was from another world.
"I want to explore this experiment called civilization," I declared. "Besides, nobody's hiring in the shipping business." So I found myself behind the wheel of United Taxi 208 one warm September Friday evening, squeaking gently along curving Alameda Street toward Anaheim Street and the unknown.
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Paul W. Silver
Paul W. Silver was born in Los Angeles in 1948. He attended public schools in Los Angeles and Long Beach and the California Maritime Academy. It was in 1962, at the age of 13, when Silver decided to become a writer. 48 years later, at the age of 61, he published his first novel, The Dangerous Dream.
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