Gregory Allan Tulley's Autobiography Essay

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In my younger and more vulnerable years my father told me to learn trigonometry. Whilst pursuing my path I had been directed towards one man who was capable of giving me that goal. When it comes to the impeccable Mr. Tulley nobody can alter fact from fiction, but we wouldn’t want it any other way. Born in on the mountaintops of Smithtown, Gregory Allan Tulley has been called many things throughout his life: Hero, Male, Antidisestablishmentarianist, and Hubby. After being bred a child mathematical prodigy who dreamed of being a baseball star, he found his true self in the later half of his teen years as a Carney where he shoveled elephant dung for years paying off his college debts while also working as an umpire on the side.Tulley spent his

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