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So… It’s been a bit. And, if you have not read these before, hello. How are you? Hope you are doing well. If you have not yet, I strongly encourage reading the posts titled “The Super Hero and Failman.” It will help you understand this particular post a little bit more. So, without further adieu, I need to get on with it. I feel the need to explain those posts from a non-dramatized, real-world view. I need to kind of put myself out there, in hopes to help others, as I try to do with any of my posts, as well as give myself a little therapy. A lot has happened, during and since that little story. To protect the innocent, what I will say is that there has been a bit of family drama in my life, and there was an event that happened, which I give a glimpse of in the first Failman post, that shook me to my core and broke me. I had a nervous breakdown. I was like a china shop that was destroyed in the worst hurricane ever known in human history. I had never felt so broken and useless. ...

Have you heard of the new hot play out on Broadway called "Alexander Hamilton?" If not, you should at least look into it. I was recently listening to some of the songs in the play, and one that caught my attention one fine afternoon as I was driving was the following one: What made this one song stick out to me is because I don't remember ever reading or hearing George Washington's farewell address. So, I went looking and found the actual address. I read it. What was interesting about the address was that it was less like a farewell and more like a letter from dad to the kids. Allow me to give you a quick and dirty summary, as I understood it. The first thing that George mentions is that the relationship between the North and the South is a delicate relationship that is also deeply rooted in the dependence that each has on the other. Basically the role of the North in relation to the South was to provide the industry that the South needed to sustain and advan...