My message to all the kids out there is to remember that no matter what age, you can always make a difference, and never let any one stop you from chasing for your dream.

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Who do you know at your dream job from a parent company, joint venture, or subsidiary?

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But if you have to turn to professional investors it can get messy for the family and friends that invested in your dream and believed in you from the start.

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Take a moment away from the to-do list and fantasize about your dream Thanksgiving.

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Is the American Dream of working your way up from a tiny cubicle to a luxurious corner office, being replaced by the idea of being able to work from home in your pajamas, thanks to advances in communications and project management technology?

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What happens to your deductions, if the dream turns into a nightmare from which you wake up screaming ?

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Well, Sonia, what you've shown in your life is that it doesn't matter where you come from, what you look like or what challenges life throws your way, no dream is beyond reach in the United States of America.

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She wrote of her triumphs and struggles in her 1994 autobiography, "A Dream Is a Wish Your Heart Makes" the title taken from a Disney song.

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Innocence, freedom, individualism, mobility the belief that you can leave a constricting or violent history behind and remake yourself in a new form of your choosing all are part of the American dream of moving west, first from the old country to America, then from the crowded cities of the East Coast to the open central plains and on to the Pacific.

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