Seventeen years of doing anything is a long time
...Seventeen years of excelling at a chosen career
requires self-discipline, and a clear focus on set
professional, as well as personal goals.

Seventeen years, seventeen videotaped flammable
Christmas tree warnings, seventeen 4th-of-July
fireworks-safety lectures, journeys to three
continents, football game sidelines-collisions,
investigative reporting confrontations… and 
physical assaults; seventeen years of coming
face-to-face with people of widely-varying social
and economic status...

Then, coming away with an under- standing of life-perspectives other than those that were familiar:

You resultantly are left either
feeling fortunate for one's own
existence, or awestruck, over life's
endless possibilities...

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