For Oprah

If experience is the only thing in life worth accumulating, why erase it?

SECOND DEGREE, HONORARY MASTER'S, COLUMBIA SCHOOL OF JOURNALISM

FIRST MOTORCYCLE

FIRED

SECOND MORTGAGE

BIG PROMOTION (DIRECTOR OF HUMAN RESOURCES, FORTUNE 500 COMPANY)

DIVORCED

PARIS AND ROME (ALONE)

SECOND GRANDCHILD (ANOTHER BOY)

REMARRIED

PARIS AND ROME (WITH BILL)

BILL'S MOTORCYCLE

BILL'S SECOND CHILDHOOD

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