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Cookie Cutter

Your wife works full time. Your children go to daycare and grade school. On weekends you are a hockey dad, your wife is a soccer mom.You have a great job with a seven figure salary. You go on two vacations a year. The shore. Disney World. You will get a pension when you retire. You mow your own lawn and fix things around the house from your ‘Honey Do’ list.

You have two cars, one an SUV and a Beemer. You have a ostentatious three story house, in ground pool, deck, two car garage, front porch, lawn, trees, neighbors that think highly of you and invite you and your family to BBQ ’s.

You attend mass on Sundays. You watch football. You drink an occasional beer. Your In-laws live nearby and love you like a son. Your folks live in Florida. They visit often.
You’ve gotten everything you ever wanted. You got accepted to the first college of your choice, on a full academic scholarship. You created the American dream. You are living the ‘everyman’ fantasy.

You are Unhappy. You are a cookie cutter from suburbia.

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