He attended more seminars. “In life, do all that you can; be all that you can; read, design, create, feel, earn all that you can. Keep testing the outer limits of your ability.... How would you be if you were the person you truly wished to be? What do you need to do to be that person?”
Create. Design. Build. Strengthen yourself, he told himself. Wapinski building blocks. What would Granpa do?
Still he sank lower.
And PEACE was NOT at hand. The negotiations in Paris had failed. Everything down the tubes. America resumed the bombing of Hanoi and Haiphong. The press labeled it the Christmas Bombings. He heard but he couldn’t pay attention.
Friday, 22 December 1972—“Oh, Bob, it’s very good to see you here.”
“Mr. Everest.”
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