And to top it all off, just as my father promised, life is better than I ever could have imagined.

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Having worked most of my teenage years and all my adult life I still find it hard to just let loose and play.

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Let me just assure you that first of all I have spent half of my adult life in the public sector in government in the United States and politics and the other half of my adult life in academe in the United States as a professor.

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All that training was like an intense therapy, just thinking about the first 50 years of my life, the good things and the bad things.

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Fifty-four years ago today, on March 4, 1952, Mr. Hemingway wrote his publisher that he had just finished a short novel that was, quote, The best I can write ever for all of my life.

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Let me just say first of all, this has been, well, there's never been a more humbling moment in my life, not only humbled by the extent of what has happened tonight.

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