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“What I don’t mention is my dark mood on that flight back. I was almost forty, broke, coming off a humiliating defeat and with my marriage strained. I felt perhaps the first time in my life that I had taken a wrong turn; that whatever reservoirs of energy and optimism I thought I had, whatever potential I’d always banked on, had been used up on fool’s errand.”

“I mean dumb choices in the wake of considerable deliberation; those times when you identify a real problem in your life, analyze it, and the with utter confidence come up with precisely the wrong answer.”

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And I thought about my mother and sister alone in that hospital room ,and me not there, so busy with my grand pursuits. I knew I could never get that moment back. On top of my sorrow, I felt a great shame.