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merrily

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3. He was born in Colorado. Military brat (Forbes family style, though.) Didn't get to Massachusetts
Tue Jun 24, 2014, 08:19 AM
Jun 2014

until he was 14, when he enrolled at the Fessenden School (later to become infamous). Also went to schools in Concord, NH and Europe before college at Yale (Connecticut).

By the age of 14, I think your accent is pretty much set? And he didn't spend many years in Massachusetts until law school. So, if he had a Massachusetts accent, I'd have to wonder if it was as real as his "Boston Irish" roots.

I just noticed in his wiki: he went to Boston College Law. Not what you'd expect of a Yale grad who had the Forbes family connections and the Forbes family willing to pay for his education--not that B.C. is cheap, anyway. But, as far as Massachusetts law schools--if it just had to be in Massachusetts--the rankings would probably be Harvard, then BU, then BC, then Suffolk and then New England.

Seems odd.

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