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"For a moment, I wondered how different my life would have been had they been my parents, but I shook the thought away. I knew my father had done the best he could, and I had no regrets about the way I'd turned out. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination. Because however it had happened, I'd somehow ended up eating shrimp in a dingy downtown shack with a girl that I already knew I'd never forget."
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"When you leave a port, ask yourself two questions: What mark you have made on that port and what have you learned from that port?"

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"Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world."

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