“I don’t want to stick my nose in where I’m not wanted, but just let me say this: you really ought to sit down and think hard about what it is that’s most important to you.” I nodded. “I have been thinking about that,” I said. “But things are so complicated and tangled up. I can’t seem to separate them out and do one thing at a time. I don’t know how to untangle things.” My uncle smiled. “You know what I think? I think what you ought to do is start by thinking about the simplest things and go from there. For example, you could stand on a street corner somewhere day after day and look at the
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