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Richard Hugo was born in 1923 in White Center, Washington, a suburb of Seattle, and said at the time it was considered "just outside the boundary of the civilized world." Although he did see his mother occasionally, she left him to be raised by her parents in a strict, silent house. Hugo grew up with the conviction that he himself was on the outside of society. Desperately insecure around females, he set out to be every man's best friend. Friend William Matthews states that Hugo had "the loner's..
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