Mary Travers was facing certain death. She was battling leukemia and five weeks of chemotherapy failed to put the disease into remission. It looked like her singing days were over.

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If you ever make it to the Forbes’ List, please send me an email. I will promptly send you a congratulatory note. If you should later fall off that list or be squeezed out by more successful people, send me another email and I will promptly send you a sympathy card. The world-famous Forbes’ List works that way.

The wealthiest people today are not millionaires. They are billionaires and the number of fish in that pond happens to be growing. In the United States alone, there are 400 billionaires. Together they are worth $1.13 trillion.

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