What is your very first memory of money? Does it tell you anything about who you are or who you have become?
When I was in first grade, a girl in my class only had 6 cents and milk was 7 cents. I gave her a penny. Because of this, I thought of myself as a good person. At the end of year, my teacher gave me a grade of "Needs Improvement" for "Shares with Others". I told her the story and said that not everyone shares and needs to be seen by the teacher doing it. I told her that I thought kids that did nice things only to be seen by the teacher were probably not really that nice anyway. I then asked that she changed my grade. She did not.
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