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Al Pacino

My dad was in the army. World War II. He got his college education from the army. After World War II he became an insurance salesman. Really, I didn't know my dad very well. He and my mother split up after the war. I was raised by my maternal grandmother

Al Pacino

Education

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Al Pacino is saying that his father's time in the army during World War II was where he received his education, rather than through a traditional college. After the war, his father changed careers and left the family, so Pacino was mainly raised by his grandmother and did not have a close relationship with his dad.

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