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 〃If you want to be rich; you have to learn to make money。

〃How do I make money?〃 I asked。

〃Well; use your head; son;〃 he said; smiling。

 Which really meant; 〃Thats all Im going to tell you;〃 or 〃I dont know the answer; so dont embarrass me。

A Partnership Is Formed

The next morning; I told my best friend; Mike; what my dad had said。

 As best I could tell; Mike and I were the only poor kids in this school。

 Mike was like me in that he was in this school by a twist of fate。

 Someone had drawn a jog in the line for the school district; and we wound up in school with the rich kids。

 We werent really poor; but we felt as if we were because all the other boys had new baseball gloves; ;;;y

new bicycles; new everything。

Mom and dad provided us with the basics; like food; shelter; clothes。

 :; But that was about it。

 My dad used to say; 〃If you want something; work for it。

〃 We wanted things; but there was not much work available for 9… ; year…old boys。

〃So what do we do to make money?〃 Mike asked。

〃I dont know;〃 I said。

 〃But do you want to be my partner?〃

He agreed and so on that Saturday morning; Mike became my first business partner。

 We spent all morning ing up with ideas on how to 1make money。

 Occasionally we talked about all the 〃cool guys〃 at Jimmys beach house having fun。

 It hurt a little; but that hurt was good; for it inspired us to keep thinking of a way to make money。

 Finally; that afternoon; a bolt of lightning came through our heads。

 It was an idea Mike had gotten from a science book he had read。

 Excitedly; we shook hands; and the partnership now had a business。

For the next several weeks; Mike and I ran around our neighborhood; knocking on doors and asking our neighbors if they would save their toothpaste tubes for us。

 With puzzled looks; most adults consented with a smile。

 Some asked us what we were doing。

 To which we replied; 〃We cant tell you。

 Its a business secret。

My mom grew distressed as the weeks wore on。

 We had selected a

site next to her washing machine as the place we would stockpile our raw materials。

 In a brown cardboard box that one time held catsup bottles; our little pile of used toothpaste tubes began to grow。

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