And maybe it's better for us not to be so nosy, not to know everything because, to paraphrase the famous line from the movie "A Few Good Men, " many of us won't be able to handle the truth.

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But had it not been for a nosy family, which is still nosy about my finances to this day, I might not be in the position I am today.

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