After our spirited discussion regarding Paris Hilton’s apparent cluelessness about world society, I was gratified to see Jamie Johnson, heir of the Johnson & Johnson fortune, talking about his films on Oprah - Born Rich and The One Percent.

I’d known so many people in my situation at 20, who were going to inherit a great deal of money at age 21, but somehow managed to live unproductive and tragic?and even in some cases miserable?lives.

What a strange paradox?You have access to something that almost every person in this world wants?and yet so many people manage to really screw it all up.

I think the most important thing I learned is that when you’re born rich, you have to really create your own life for yourself. You have to go it your own way, create your own identity. It’s tempting to fall back on your family name and your family wealth, but you have to do something different from your family that you have created for yourself.

Now to do some research on the Johnson & Johnson family to discover their parenting secrets. (Although I think they’re not without some dirty laundry.)
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It has been two months and five days since I lost Wanadoo Wireless & Talk broadband.

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