And you call me a liar"."Oh ... oh ... sorry ... I didn't mean it that way ... I'm sorry" she blurted out, attempting to backtrack on her comments.We ...just looked at each other, not speaking for the next couple of minutes.Jacinta broke the silence saying "I am just jealous ... I would love to be in her position and experience what she did".I smiled back at her to show that I wasn't continuing to be upset with her.Then in a low quiet voice she stunned me "Would you show me?"So that is how I came. " So you started out on your own. Got friends, whatever, after you got there." You did something different?" He asked."Nope. Pretty much the way I was. But this bunch ... similar goals, standing at the door together ... I guess they have a reason to be excited." I thought for a second. "Was there anyone in your family that could back you up? I mean, academically?" No," he said. "Pop was an operator at a chemical plant. He would've helped if he could've. But all he had was a high school diploma. In June of 1998, he graduated. When he returned home his Mom and Dad sat him down and explained to him that a trust that his grandfather had set up for him was now his. In 1984, 16,666 shares of Microsoft were purchased at a cost of $6.00per share. There had been five stock splits so the share total was now 66,664.At $115.00 per share, Jim was worth $7,666,360.00"Jim, we think that you should travel across the United States. Never let anyone know what you are worth. Work a couple months here. Was my mother right, was there a hell, and a devil? But if I was in hell, why had the pain been subdued? Why wasn’t it being increased? I knew that I deserved to be in damnation, if such a place truly existed. In the course of the war I had killed people, and I had not saved patients that I should have. If I had been a better medic more of my patients would have survived. What was fueling my dilemma was the figure beside my bed. The uniform was white, as I would expect to see on a nurse or.
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