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Many years ago, in my mid-teens, I leafed through an American lifestyle magazine and the picture and story on the front cover caught my attention. It was the story of an American tycoon who owned one of America’s most majestic pieces of real estate. The place was Mar-a-Lago and the owner was Donald J Trump.
Revelling at the picturesque Mar-a-Lago residence and reading about this real estate magnate my teenage mind started racing. I was ambitious and believed I could make it big in business. A thought quickly came to mind to dispatch a letter to this man, seeking his assistance to finance my dreams. There was no email back then. No Google.
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