# 25

By [Ram](https://paragraph.com/@ram008) · 2024-07-17

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25 years in this country to this day. The day went like any other but personified my existence in this great land.

*   Some wins
    
*   Some losses
    
*   A metaphorical parking ticket
    
*   An unexpected windfall
    
*   A disappointment
    
*   Hard work that was rewarded
    
*   A beautiful city scape
    
*   A cone of lovely ice cream
    
*   A long drive in a fully self driving car I bought
    
*   Lovely dinner with family
    

Where else can you get all in one?

July 16th, 1999 - a day that will be remembered as a start of an era. An innocent time when there was nothing to lose. A hustle that began and has not yet waned.

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*Originally published on [Ram](https://paragraph.com/@ram008/25)*