I have to thank my dad for introducing me to W. C. Fields and my brother for re-introducing years later. The man was a genius. Had a poor childhood as I recall. Poor as in unhappy. Seems like an appreciable percentage of prominent people have unhappy childhoods. Nothing to be envious of, but it does make me wonder what lesson they learned as a child of unfortunate circumstance that most people don't. I was watching s documentary last night called Big River Man. The story of a Slovenian fellow who swam the entire length of the Amazon river. He also swam the Danube, the Mississippi, and the Yangtze. Crazy hard things to do, but he did them without much of a torch. He just had something in him that made him dauntless. He also had a bad childhood. Maybe they learn at am early age that it is possible to overcome impossible situations. I'm glad I don't know the answer.
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