Wayne F. Burke was born in 1954 in a small manufacturing town in the North Berkshire Hills of Massachusetts.His father, Edward, had been a sergeant in the Marine Corp before becoming manager of a Mobil Flying-A Gasoline station; his mother, Claire Burke nee Kelly, had worked in a textile mill before becoming a full-time housewife. Both of his parents died young: his mother at twenty-eight--at which time...
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