Don’t Face the Facts

Daria Petrilli

When we were young, we all had these dreams of being vast beings, great. We wanted to be pilots or astronauts or princesses or gold medalists or kings. It’s because we *are* great. But we learn to compromise that greatness inside. And it’s up to us to come out from behind that self-imposed exile.

You know all those fairy tales about the lost prince or the princess living in exile and poverty, until all of a sudden one day they rediscover their inheritance, get married and live happily ever after?

Do you think those stories are just stories for children? No! Those are stories for adults! The children don’t need them, we do!

~ Richard Rudd

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If your great-great-great grandparents moved from Norway to the USA, started a family, and generations later you were born, you are NOT Norwegian. Your ancestors were and you have a bit of Nordic blood in you but you are still 100% American. Not Norwegian. Not 25% Irish, 10% Swedish, 3% Finnish, 17% Norwegian, 5% Danish — just plain American.

Visiting European cities and telling us how different…