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BUT how I love storms.

There is something majestic about them even when they are the most uncontrollable phenomena on earth.

Or maybe it is exactly because of this that I find them so fascinating.

Uncontrollable.

Powerful.

Something like that the power that is inside me.

Maybe it is exactly the reason why I like watching storms, because they might show me something that I need to control this storm within me.

I took control of my life—a difficult undertaking being alone at the age of fourteen—but I was able to. I eluded the system until I was of legal age.

By that time, I have already acquired a significant amount of money by gambling here and there to get me through school and then through college, without having to ask for a student loan that will surely put me in the system for years.

Then I discovered the stock market and acquired my first million before I graduated.

I took up serious investing in real estate, bought companies to rescue from greedy, unfeeling banks, and m