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“Do you want to be congratulated for wasting four whole years?” My father tossed my diploma into the trash right in the middle of his 60th birthday celebration.

September 26, 2026

You’re strong.

You can carry it.

You’ll be fine.

He was right.

I was always fine.

That was the problem.

Fine is what they call you when they don’t want to look.

It’s what you become so that nobody has to.

And I was so good at it that I paid $212,000 for the privilege of not being seen.

I’m done being fine.

I’m going to be seen.

Starting with me.

My father built a company the same year I was born.

For 30 years, he told people that one of them he understood.

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