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TO OUR CHILDREN’S CHILDREN

or, A Message of Encouragement and Empowerment

There are two lasting bequests we can give our children. One is roots. The other is wings.

—PULITZER PRIZE–WINNING EDITOR HODDING CARTER JR.

Dear future great -grandchildren,

Thank you for taking the time to read this book!

When I started to write this final chapter, I grabbed my “box of possibility” from my windowsill and opened it up to go through it. This box holds every single cool memory I’ve ever had, from tickets to the World Cup in South Africa to invitations to presidential birthday parties to letters from old lovers to plane ticket stubs from all over the world to little trinkets and notes from every adventure and business I’d ever created. And to think ...

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