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2. Springsteen's career crossroads.

Bruce Springsteen's mother, who thought her young son should become an author, was not impressed when he announced his desire to play guitar.

"My mother - she's very Italian - she says, 'This is a big thing. You should go see the priest,'" he recalled. An obedient son, Bruce went to the rectory and knocked on the door:

"Hi, Father Ray, I'm Mr. Springsteen's son," he said. "I got this problem. My father thinks I should be a lawyer, and my mother, she wants me to be an author. But I got this guitar."

"This is too big a deal for me," Father Ray replied. "You gotta talk to God... Tell him about the lawyer and the author," he then advised, "but don't say nothin' about that guitar!"

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