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the Pathet Lao, the Communist insurgents, coming to kick the Americans out, and two days later, Almond and his family were evacuated to Germany.
Wherever he was, his heroes were Johnny Bench and Pete Rose, “the greatest player on the field,” Almond jokes. He was a big Cincinnati Reds fan and hated the American League.
He was already thinking out of the box when the Almond family settled finally in Manassas. He lived in the sphere of the Washington Redskins but loved the Miami Dolphins, and while he was attending Longwood College in Farmville, Va., the football team he supported was the University of Ohio “Buckeyes,” because Ohio was where he was bom.
When he graduated from Longwood in 1987, he felt drained of sports and too much tennis. He enjoyed talking to people and was good at face-toface encounters with strangers. With this as a background, he entered sales of computers and peripherals, but after four
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