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After all, his father sent him to military school.

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Born in the Bronx to an Army doctor and a registered nurse, Bauman went to military school and moved to Hollywood just before he turned 18.

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Trump's father sent Donald to military school because he was spoiled and out of control.

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In the early ’50s, Vargas Llosa’s father dispatched him to the Colegio Militar Leoncio Prado, a military school in Lima, because he thought it would “cure” the boy of his interest in literature.

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“It was an extremely traumatic experience which in many ways marked the end of my childhood,” Vargas Llosa told the Paris Review decades later of his military school experience, “the rediscovery of my country as a violent society, filled with bitterness, made up of social, cultural, and racial factions in complete opposition and caught up in sometimes ferocious battle.”

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