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We have a problem. Let me describe the problem to you with a story from my own life. You know

for much of my youth so I'm talking about when I was a teenager in my

20s even somewhat in my early 30s. I never felt, you know, inside, I never felt like a man. I always felt

like I was still a boy, even though was let's say 25 years old 26 years old

I would still feel like I was a boy like not completely a man yet not completely an adult

And I realize this was quite strange in a way that there was something strange about it because, you know, my own father, you know, he was a dad, he was a father, he was the leader of a family at age 22, 22, 23.

And I thought of my own dad and I thought of his life

at my age, let's say when I was 30, and I still had very little responsibility, still kind of felt like, acted like a boy, whereas I thought of my dad at that age as being very much a man, a very

responsible man with a with a career and a family. Only, when I first started feeling more like a man, it was probably in my late 20s.

Up until then, you know, I'd been in school, I'd been in school so much. I went to, of course, high school

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