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Death and Taxes
Elizabeth Hirata Elizabeth Hirata

Death and Taxes

Nobody wants to die, but everyone will. It is a fact. Eventually, one day your heart will stop pumping, oxygen will no longer reach your brain and you will perceive nothing ever again. But, people will remember you. Your spouse, your friends, your children, others whose lives you touched. And in a way, they will carry you on into the future, for who knows how long. But, eventually, given enough time, your name, the impact that you had on the world will fade and return to the dust from whence it came. And on Good Friday, if you follow the Christian tradition, we take a moment to remember this fact.

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Legacy of a Pickpocket
Elizabeth Hirata Elizabeth Hirata

Legacy of a Pickpocket

What would you like your legacy to be? Regardless of how small or insignificant or invisible you may feel, how beaten up or beaten down you may be, your legacy is made of nothing more and nothing less than the choices you make. You can choose to be someone you can live with being, someone you can believe in, someone who can leave the world a little better than you found it.

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