Restoring, Regenerating, Nutrition

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My father at seven years of age had his first lump of cancer cut off his neck. Down in Oklahoma. And then he moved to Nebraska. And later on I was born and thirty. And by the time I was 17, I was ready to leave the farm in western Nebraska. I had had enough of farming. It was dry. It was barren. It was for poor people. And we didn't have much fun. I was raised in a Mennonite community, very cloistered, about 35 miles from any town. So I don't have many good memories of childhood. I did learn a lot of don'ts. Don't have fun. Don't play around. If you want to play around. Get to work. Don't go see a movie. I never saw a movie till I got away and got to college. I never danced in my life. I stayed away from everybody else because they were wrong and we were right. But that was the issue. The thing is that I knew it was a rough life and I didn't want a part of it. So I split at 17. I hitchhiked away. I had seen the advertised bit of a college and a paper. I didn't know what it was, but I didn't realize. I went past University, Nebraska, Lincoln, when I went to college in Minneapolis, Minnesota. I don't know why I was that smart to pick the ice capital of the world instead of not going to Florida or Mexico. But I didn't. I just saw there was a college there. So I arrived and I said, I'm ready. I borrowed my brother's suit and I stole my suitcase. Now, why? I said, I want to go to college. And they said, Where's your transcripts? I didn't know they're talking about. So they said, well, we'll put you on probation because they wanted my money and they kept me for one semester, see if I'd pass and then they'd let me in. So I waited and they got my papers and then I went to school there. Course I had to work my way through. So it took me five years. And when I was done, I didn't feel prepared. And I did a lot of experimenting because, man, I had never seen the world truthfully. This thing wants to drink. And so I think it was good, but I wasn't ready, and when I was in college, I thought I'm going to become a doctor because I knew they made a lot of money. It was a prestigious Dobb. I'd always be able to work and not have to work as hard as