Not too long ago, if memory serves, I was a young man. I was at grave risk of “failing to launch,” as we say today: smoking a lot of weed, dropping out of college, retreating back home to live with my parents, losing my head, and pondering ending it on more than one occasion.

I was one of the lucky ones.

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