what the next decade of your lives is likely to be about, and that is trying to ensure that you don’t wake up at thirty-two or thirty-five or forty tenured to a life that happened to you when you weren’t paying strict attention, either because the money was good or it made your parents proud, or because you were unlucky enough to discover an aptitude for the very thing that bores you to tears, or for any of the other semivalid reasons people marshal to justify allowing the true passion of their lives to leak away. If you’re lucky, you may have more than one chance to get things right, but
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