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And now on with the show. Thank you, by the way.

So I want you to imagine that you're eight years old and you're standing in the grocery store checkout line.

The card gets declined. I know. It's happened to all of us. I mean, it's probably just a bank

error, right? I mean, these things do happen. But you watch your parents face change. Their shoulders,

they tense. Embarrassment settles in, right? And somehow it settles into you too.

You don't know it yet, but you have just inherited something.

Not a keepsake, not a recipe, but a quiet belief.

That security, it's fragile.

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