Perhaps the reality can be different if you are open to the possibility that you are making the most courageous choice of your life when you are willing to put your whole self on the line for a new project, to test an idea, or to take a shot at creating a better and happier life.

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It would also expose the allocation of public funds to a public-interest test (instead of the prevalent one, based on bureaucratic self-interest).

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To test the self-pub ebook waters, I recently put three true crime shorts up on Kindle and Nook.

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