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==Early life== Bremer was born in [[Milwaukee|Milwaukee, Wisconsin]], the third of four sons, to William and Sylvia Bremer. He was raised by his [[working-class]] parents on the south side of Milwaukee and lived in a dysfunctional household. Bremer stated "I would escape my ugly reality by pretending that I was living with a television family and there was no yelling at home or no one to hit me."<ref>{{cite magazine | title=Arthur Bremer's Notes from the Underground | url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903517,00.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630095023/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903517,00.html | url-status=dead | archive-date=June 30, 2009 | magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] | date=May 29, 1972 | access-date=June 7, 2009}}</ref> Though he played football with the freshman-sophomore team and tried out for the wrestling team during the 1966-67 school year, Bremer did not make friends, and he remained a solitary student until his 1969 graduation from [[South Division High School]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.absolutecrime.com/the-real-life-taxi-driver-a-biography-of-arthur-herman-bremer-the-real-inspiration-of-travis-bickle.html|title=The Real Life Taxi Driver: A Biography of Arthur Herman Bremer (The Real Inspiration of Travis Bickle)|website=Absolute Crime}}</ref><ref>''The New York Times'', May 17, 1972</ref> After graduating from high school, Bremer briefly attended [[Milwaukee Area Technical College]], studying aerial photography, art, writing, and psychology; he dropped out after one semester.<ref name="PPG">''Pittsburgh Post Gazette'', May 17, 1972</ref><ref name=Benning93>{{cite book |editor=Ault, Julie |author=Benning, James |title=(FC) Two Cabins by JB |publisher=ArtPress |location=London |year=2011|isbn= 978-0-923183-48-6}} p.93</ref>
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