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I was born in 1964 and grew up in Orange County, California as the youngest of three children. My father, James L. Drake, was a native Californian, and (aside from being a fine amateur boxer) he served in the Navy from 1952-56 on the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.navsource.org\/archives\/09\/22\/22112.htm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><b>USS <i>Mann<\/i><\/b><\/a>, later going to work for the U.S. Postal Service. My mother, Theresa <span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">Calamito, grew up in New Jersey and became a seamstress. She loved to read and encouraged me to become a scholar.<\/span><\/p><p style=\"font-size: 17px;\"><span style=\"letter-spacing: 0px;\">I attended Saddleback High School in Santa Ana, and then Orange Coast College before transferring to the University of California, Irvine, where I graduated <i>summa cum laude<\/i> with a B.A. in English in 1989. 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