This lawyer explains that at the age of 17 he was obsessed with writing, and had decided it was what he wanted to do with his life. However, his mother told him this SOTM. “I was really bummed out about it at the time, but I managed to find a career – and they were pretty much right.”

He goes on to say that he now writes plenty in his spare time, so his story “is not as sad as you imagine, as it ended up being a positive thing”. Taken in New York.

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