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And we continue with our American stories.

And up next, the story of Malin Burnham, a business leader in San Diego who's made a massive impact on his city, as so many business leaders do.

By the way, I spent quite a bit of time with Malin and it was a real pleasure, a gift, actually for me.

And he talked a lot about pivot points in his life, and there were several.

So when you hear the word pivots,

think about your own life, and those moments were turned one way or the other. Here's our own

Monti Montgomery with the story of a man who truly put his community before himself.

Malam Burnham is a philanthropist, a sailor, and known as Mr. San Diego, which makes perfect sense.

He's lived there his whole life.

A lot of people say, well, why wouldn't you want to move around and see more country?

I said, because I've got the best place in the world to live.

My first pivot that I can imagine or think about

was age 17 in August of 1945.

My dad was, his sport was golf.

And he played business golf.

That is, on Wednesday afternoon and Saturday mornings,

he'd take a client out and play golf.

My mother, her recreation, was beach swimming, suntan, and those type of thing.

So she took my brother and I to these little private beaches, not private, but public beaches,

but you had to go between two houses to find them in this area, Point Loma.

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