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    PUTTING DOWN ROOTS

    Oct 04, 2019 2 minutes
    —As told to James Louie

    YOU WERE ONCE A JOURNALIST. HAS THAT INFORMED YOUR LATER CAREER AT ALL?

    I always liked to ask questions and journalism was an easy way to get paid for doing that. This trait of asking “why?” of everything has been the source of all the problems in my youth,

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