Excerpts from The Earth's Best Story

From the Introduction

ARNIE: Earth’s Best began as a speck of alluring light on a distant shore. It was a complete fantasy, and, like any good fantasy, achieving the impossible (as in reaching that light) was central to the plot.

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From Part I - The Boys Behind the Men

RON: Ronald, what’s XL?” Silence. What I remember is my teacher pulling me by the arm up to the blackboard. She seemed angry at me and was tapping her chalk at those two neatly written letters. Then she took my head and, at least as I remember it, hit it against the blackboard.

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From Part II – The Earth's Best Start-Up Begins

RON: Sometimes I sensed that there were invisible forces working against us, standing in our way. In my imagination, I linked one to the karma Arnie and I were carrying forward from our dad and his dad and who knows how many generations of Kosses or Cohoses or whatever our last name was ten generations ago.

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From Part III – Crossing the Finish Line but Just Beginning

ARNIE: I can remember a meeting in Boston with the financial advisor of one of Earth’s Best’s largest early investors. The meeting took place after Ron and I had left the company. We first exchanged some pleasantries before the guy said to me, “You didn’t have enough working capital when you launched.”

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