D. in economics fresh out of school, when I hired Sam, an investment consultant with a major financial firm to manage an Individual Retirement Account (IRA).

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On a Saturday morning in the winter of 1985, I was shopping at Mid-Island Plaza Mall in Long Island New York where I came across Sam, an investment consultant, who was soliciting business for his firm.

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Before long, I did have those licenses myself, I fired Sam, and I began my own journey as an individual investor, discovering that my story was neither new nor unique.

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My poetry editor, Sam Witt, and I typically begin the process by discovering an innovative literary work, one that explores the possibilities of language beyond the standard 19th century model that is (unaccountably) still used today.

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