Coming later this week: A 9-year-old's decision lasts for a lifetime

You just never know, do you?

That day when you meet The One. That road that takes you north, not south. The book that changes your outlook.

Or the job you didn't get, for good reasons.

All memories that stick with you, alter your plans, or maybe, please you years later.

Everyone has one of those. Me, too.

The next installment of The Sunday Column explores — but doesn't fully explain — the connection between this 1966 photo:

and this 2018 reality:

I have no idea what the job would have paid, but I do know why I turned it down, and how that decision lives with me to this day.

Coming later this week in The Sunday Column at danlflannery.com.

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