Ric Elias
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And all of a sudden, the government realized he never paid his taxes or a lot of his taxes.
I imagine he's like, look, that money belongs to me, not to the government.
So they took everything away.
So my dad in his teens went from like the wealthiest 10 families to nothing.
And to this day, my dad pays for anything cash.
That was so riveting.
So we will have this family dinners and big Hispanic Lebanese families.
There's 30 people at the table, right?
You're the little kid.
And inevitably, the story will always go to my grandpa.
And the stories were always like this incredible guy who was bigger than whatever.
And then they always ended in a murmur.
The shame of how the family ended.
And I saw my grandma tell the stories and everybody.
And I think I was a little kid and I didn't realize this until much later.
And it's interesting, the stories.
And by the way, it may be a story I'm telling myself.
That's okay.
It helps me.
It's amazing the things that we carry in our lives.