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And he also created a magical atmosphere of trust between us by confessing his secret, which was that, as a very young boy starting at age four, he had been savagely and repeatedly physically abused by his stepfather, and the abuse had gotten so bad that he had had to drop out of school in eighth grade, even though he was very smart, and he'd spent almost 20 years rebuilding his life.

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Over the course of this year that we spent flying back and forth, we realized we had fallen in love with the place.

So they formed a White House task force, and they spent about three years arguing about who takes how much responsibility in the global supply chain.

I estimated that, just today, across the world, we spent about 106 average world lifetimes teaching people how to calculate by hand.

And he spent the last 10 years of his life in two places only, the slums and the state prison, where he spent the last two years before he ended up sitting on this rock there.

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