Hey, as we get started today, my question for you is this, have you ever experienced the

pain of rejection?

So when I was 16 years old, and just for reference, I actually found my driver's license photo

from when I was 16 years old that I'll have on the screen back here.

This may answer some questions that you've had about me, like, why does that guy always

have a beard?

Because if I did now it looked like that.

That's why I have a beard.

So me at 16, I have a driver's license, so I had wheels.

I had a job, so I had money.

A young lady at church caught my eye and so I thought I need a date.

So I got my courage, built up.

One day I went into the kitchen, grabbed a landline.

You guys remember landline phones on the wall of the kitchen, but no worries because there

was about a 30-foot phone cord in the kitchen.

So I grabbed it off the wall.

I walked out of the kitchen, went across the hall, went into the room, across from the

kitchen, shut the door for privacy, pulled out a piece of paper from a pocket that had

her seven-digit phone number on it.

I dialed the first six numbers on the landline and then hung up.

Not quite ready.

A few deep breaths.

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