The Man Who Failed To Fulfill His Boyhood Dream

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I wanted to be a cop ever since

I was five years old. 

Not because of the uniform;

not because of the gun;

because of the whistle.

It was some kind

of oral fixation thing.

So I took the policeman's test

after graduating from high school

but failed because they would not

allow me to put

a Winchell's Donut sticker

on the patrol car.  

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Footnote

Originally written in 1999,

THE MAN WHO FAILED

TO FULFILL HIS BOYHOOD DREAM

is the copyrighted property of LCSoL

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