Advoken's Blog
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Category: Personal
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Many of you have probably heard the old saying, “For Want of a Nail, a kingdom was lost.” The saying goes back to the 13th Century, only to have Benjamin Franklin give it a bit more context in 1758,[i] putting it in rhyme: For want of a nail the shoe was lost,for want of a…
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It dawned on me that as my 90th birthday approached that I was extremely blessed — not only that I had survived all these years but because of the good fortunes of life that I had no control over. I was blessed at my birth – August 8, 1929 – to be born Caucasian AND…