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It’s been said that our original wants and desires are the correct ones and that we screw it up later by changing our minds and second guessing ourselves. That’s when we make mistakes. Your original hunch is usually the correct one. I don’t know if this is true or if it’s folklore but right about now it sounds like the absolute truth and this is coming from one that doesn’t believe in absolutes. JFK had been assassinated three years earlier but you’d never know it by looking at my eleven year old self. It still stung though and it never really healed. But as a kid I had plenty of distractions being the science nerd that I was. Even in Southern California there was plenty to explore and enough flora and fauna to capture the imagination of a budding mad scientist. That’s what I wanted to be. I’m not sure if they would have let me be maniacal but I knew that I wanted to at least be some kind of scientist, probably a paleontologist. So you’d see me digging up rocks or pick

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