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| Press & Journal Article ( June 4, 2016 ) |
While growing up after watching a movies about people who have amass millions by being on the wrong side of the law, I always wondered what goes inside the minds of those people or what goes on in the lives of those people when they have settle their score with the law. I am quite sure, at some point you might also have wondered the same thing. I got the answer to my first question by reading "Chasing Black Gold" and today I am trying to answer my second question.
Few weeks back I
posted the review of “Chasing Black Gold: An Incredible True Story of Fuel Smuggler in Africa” written by Robert stone. While talking to him he told me
that he has a press article published by Press and Journal on June 4, 2016
where he was interviewed, where he reveals more aspects of his life which he has not mentioned in the book and while interacting more with him he told me that he was more than happy to share it with us. Before
heading to that press article, I will surely recommend you to check out the
detailed review of Chasing Black Gold.
It will surely help you to get a better understanding of the entire story.
Here is the side of
the story which is not written in the book and mentioned in the press article
which I think you will find interesting:
“It was though, I don’t know how the children
and I get through it. I’d just begun a new international venture in the oil
industry but I had to abandon all that to be there for my kids. It was the only
way. Then six years ago, I was diagnosed with bowel cancer. People tell you
when you receive such news, it’s a wake-up call.”
He laughs, “Yeah, like I needed another wake-up
call. First going to prison, then losing Linda and now cancer? I looked up at
the skies and shouted, ‘Hey God. I’m AWAKE.”
He is now in remission has recently found love
again, and decided the time is right to publish his life story. “Because I
don’t want my children to think there was anything the least bit romantic in
what I did. I don’t want them to get wrong ideas.
“So many people from my past have died; so many
places that meant something to us have been destroyed. There were elements I
had chosen not to remember – and I uncovered some painful truths during my
research. But I’ve tried to be as true to the story as I can. There are bits in
the book that I’m so ashamed of and can still make me cry. What I learned is
that past mistakes can come back to haunt you and ruin your life. You need
solid foundations to build legacy and if you don’t have them you will end up
with nothing – like I have.”
I hope that answers the second question. Just in case you want to check the entire article, here is the link where you can read the entire press article,
Link to P&J article: Robert Stone's Interview
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Before taking you leave, I would like to wish HAPPY DIWALI AND HAPPY HALLOWEEN to everyone and do give lots of sweets to children's coming at your doorsteps and saying "Trick or Treat". I am quite sure, those children's just like me means it.
CIAO.
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