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Jane Hanson's avatar

Loved this story about your grandfather .

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Bob Keener's avatar

This is great, John! Love the topic and the personal connection -- all really well rendered.

Now do the Great Man's siblings: Self-made and boot-strapped. No one is self-made. (See Warren Buffett quote about his potential if born in Madagascar.) And "pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps," was a joke. It is actually impossible: bootstraps were inside of boots for pulling them on. Imagine trying to pull yourself up by pulling on the tops of your boots. You would go nowhere!

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