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I have known Barney Frank for nearly 30 years, but I have not known him as well or as long as my good friend Bill Black. Bill has written an extraordinary personal piece I want to share â€" Bill is a senior executive at Fleishman Hillard, a former chief of staff to several members of Congress. But, as you will see, it was not always thus.

Thank You, Barney Frank 


Barney Frank had more impact on my life than any human being outside my immediate family. I was 27 years old and adrift. I was in the final semester of UMass/Boston after a bumpy eight-year odyssey toward an undergraduate degree in political science. I had been working as a stock boy at the Stop & Shop for 11 years and was contemplating the exciting prospect of being promoted to frozen food manager at Store 431 in Roslindale, a blue-collar neighborhood of Boston. Then everything changed. 


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