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After Avon, things went generally south for me. After four and a half semesters at Syracuse University, I dropped out and went to work in New York City; then quit and moved to Phoenix in July of 1976. There, I did two semesters at Scottsdale Community College, transferred to ASU in ’77, and worked brief stints as a security guard and a bank teller. In 1978, I dropped out again, got married, and started a business selling coffee and tea to restaurants and offices. A year later, I met Dan Schweiker, who was opening a coffee roasting retail store on Camelback Road and 32nd street and we became fast friends. Then, early in 1982, Dan and I both ran out of cash and closed our respective businesses at which time I divorced my wife.