As the wind started to whip around our Long Island home, my husband Michael and I fell into our typical roles when it comes to threat anticipation: I believed that the sky was falling while Michael believed that nothing serious was going to happen.

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In November 2002, I was flown first-class from my home in Palm Beach, Florida to the island of Guam to deliver a keynote speech at the Third Annual Investment Conference of the Asia Pacific Association for Fiduciary Studies.

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