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My name is Warren R. Schmidt and I am your new foster father.

Warren's first letter to Ndugu · About Schmidt (2002)

My name is Warren R. Schmidt and I am your new foster father.

Frase 1 de 40

Say personal information.

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1My name is Warren R. Schmidt and I am your new foster father .
En la escenaWarren opens his letter by naming himself Ndugu's new foster father through a charity program.
Ejemplo cotidianoMy foster father taught me to swim.
2Say personal information.
3All right, ahem.
4I live in Omaha, Nebraska.
5My older brother, Harry, lives in Roanoke, Virginia with his wife, Estelle.
6Harry lost a leg two years ago to diabetes.
7I am 66 years old...
8...and recently retired as assistant vice president and actuary...
9...at Woodmen of the World Insurance Company.
10And goddamn it if they didn't replace me with some kid who...
11All right, so maybe he's got a little theory under his belt ...
12...and can plug a few numbers into a computer...
13...but I could tell right off that he doesn't know a damn thing...
14...about genuine real-world risk assessment.
15Or managing a department, for that matter .
16Little cocky bastard .
17Anyway, 66 must sound pretty old to a young fellow like yourself.
18The truth is it sounds pretty old to me too.
19Because when I look in the mirror and see the wrinkles around my eyes...
20...and the sagging skin on my neck and the hair in my ears...
21...and the veins on my ankles, I can't believe it's really me.
22When I was a kid, I used to think that maybe I was special...
23...that somehow destiny had tapped me to be a great man.
24Not like Henry Ford or Walt Disney or somebody like that...
25...but somebody, you know, semi-important.
26I got a degree in business and statistics...
27...and was planning to start my own business someday.
28Build it up into a big corporation. Watch it go public , you know?
29Maybe make the Fortune 500.
30I was gonna be one of those guys you read about.
31But somehow, it just didn't work out that way .
32You've gotta remember, I had a top-notch job at Woodmen...
33...and a family to support.
34I couldn't exactly put their security at risk .
35Helen, that's my wife.
36She wouldn't have allowed it.
37But what about my family, you might ask .
38What about my wife and daughter?
39Don't they give me all the pride and satisfaction I could ever want?
40Helen and I have been married 42 years.

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The form letter drifts into confession, until the writer is really talking to himself.

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