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After spending most of my youth resisting any attempt to impose authority on me, I then enlisted for 3 years in the US Army in 1961. But I learned in basic training to stand on my own two feet without expecting any help from anyone, and I got to go to college later when they passed a new GI Bill that helped with college and home loans, so that turned out to be a smart move after all. I've been married, divorced, and in and out of affairs so often that practically every week marks an anniversary of some sort or the other. But my first two marriages gave me three wonderful children who have since produced wonderful grandchildren, and I'm now married to a wonderful woman who knows all my faults and loves me anyway. More important, I've learned that for most of my life, I've had wrong expectations of love and marriage because I was hooked on infatuation, where you can't wait to see that lover again or hear her voice or touch her hair. But no one can maintain that high intensity relationship for ever. And when that initial passion cooled, I used to think, "It's all over." But I've finally learned that there's more than that to love and marriage and that real romance doens't have to turn stale. So even that has turned out good for me.
Which leaves me with only one mundane business goof--I once showed up a week early to cover a business conference in San Francisco--just got the date mixed up in my mind and bought the tickets for the wrong date. Try taking a long flight back to Houston thinking how the hell you're going to explain that when you go back to the office the next day.
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