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... wind, the optimist expects the wind to change, the realist adjusts the sails.”

William Arthur Ward

There is very little choice that I have in regards to where and how I live. I do not have any control over the matter. I can either rail and rage at where I am, hope that it will somehow get better or simply make the best of it.

Father had been visiting us on our very own Alcatraz every now and then but he had not rescued us from our somewhat arduous training, at least not y ...

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