I resolved at once to go to that school, although I had no idea where it was, or how many miles away, or how I was going to reach it; I remembered only that I was on fire constantly with one ambition, and that was to go to Hampton.
Washington recounts his immediate and unwavering decision to attend Hampton Institute, despite lacking practical knowledge of how to get there.
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