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From my father I acquired the willing-
ness to try something new and different and the 
confiGence that , can Go aEoXt an\thing , tacNle; 
from m\ mother , thinN , inheriteG a lot of persis-
tence.  I am damned persistent and when I start out 
to do a thing I generally accomplish it, come hell or 
high Zater  :hen , Zas a \oXng Eo\, m\ nicNname 
was “Stub” and I was considered stubborn by my 
parents from the time I was a year old.
A History of U-Haul (1945 - 1954)
Samuel Joseph Shoen

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