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9/27/15

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Smith married his high school sweetheart. A year later they were the proud parents of a healthy, robust son. Smith worked as a car mechanic, going to college at night. His wife got a good job as a graphic designer. Their parents alternated taking care of the baby.

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Smith, immediately after graduating high school - that afternoon - joined the marines. His parents had died in a terrorist attack a month earlier. He vowed celibacy until he got his life together, by which he meant perfect. He was angry, determined and now focused.

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Smith got into Harvard, Yale and Princeton. After his first year with a 4.0 he dropped out of Harvard, raised $2 million in venture capital, hired a team of hungry programmers to build software for the military.

Five years later he sold the company to BMI and retired to the Virgin Islands. It took all of 30 days for Smith to get bored enough to start his next company which he sold the following year for $5 million.

At 30 he was restless, felt pointless, gave away money, worked in a homeless shelter. Joined a gym. Mastered martial arts - all of them.

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Smith joined a rock band - playing international tours to throngs of screaming teenagers. Ten years of partying and hard living later, it was only CBT which kept him from killing himself. He knew he never had the naturalness of a Marvin Gaye. Maybe he could find his own naturalness with yoga? Where did that come from? Anyway isn’t naturalness by definition one’s own?

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After high school Smith joins, then escapes from a gang of drug dealers, finding himself in Mexico a year later selling guns at Walmart. The tweeter in chief hears about this, praises Smith for standing up for gun rights, calls him Smith and Wesson.

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