Psychiatry

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"When I got out of the Navy and had to come into the building world, I found that I was interested in putting up good buildings; and I was not interested in making money. I never had the slightest feeling for making money. I was really tremendously surprised and actually felt very badly about why people wanted to play games for money with me--and this spoiled the whole thing. The money idea was obnoxious to me really fundamentally. I tried very hard to play the game and I was no good at it. I was in this cul de sac. I had made a mess of it.

"A lot of people thought I was very bright with high initiative and all, and they bet on me and so they lost all their money. I was in a real mess. And I had either theme to do away with myself, because I had a new child, and this was not just our first child, but a second child. Our first child died before her fourth birthday--and after a five-year hiatus here was this new life entrusted to us--that my wife and I were to have in Chicago. . . our families were in the East far away when we had this new child."

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