“If you want to really know what your friends and family think of you die broke, and then see who shows up for the funeral.”
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I was one those kids who had books on them. Before weddings, Bar Mitzvahs, funerals and anything else where you're actually meant to not be reading, my family would frisk me and take the book away. If they didn't find it by this point in the procedure, I would be sitting over in that corner completely unnoticed just reading my book.
It was the dumbest thing I had ever seen, but it's a family thing, and I guess it's clean.
You follow any family around, you're going to see elation, you're going to see disharmony.
The promise of America has always been that if you worked hard, had the right values, took some risks, that there was an opportunity to build a better life for your family and for your next generation.