Peccata Minuta

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September 19, 2006, on Money, Money, Money:
I don't agree with you idea that to progress in life you must have rich parents. My grandfather quarreled his father and abandoned the home when he was nearly 18 (in 1918) without studies and money and with the only capability of drawing acceptabily well. He went to the war in Africa in 1921 and came back to Spain where he married and began to work a jewel company making 3D pictures on silver (using his gift for drawing). Soon he found himself with 4 children and not much income, so he employed his savings in buying some sheep. He would keep on working for others and the 2 or 3 sheep would be under the care of a shepperd. This shepperd would collect a comission when the animal were sold. 3 sheep made 6, 6 made 12, 12 made 24, 24, made 48, and so on. Reached this point my grandfather left his job and settled as farmer and shepperd. After he began with pigs and cows. Apart from meat, he sold milk, and employed many other workers to take care of the cattle. When the...