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On a brilliant September Saturday, the kind of day that demands you go outside one last time before fall settles into its full gloom, I packed all four kids into our minivan and headed to my office.
I had spent the last week emptying and cleaning the space that had once housed the five-attorney law firm I had founded. I was about to default on the lease and file for bankruptcy. But before I said goodbye to the space forever, I wanted to make a happy memory with my children. I wanted to find some way to remember this chapter in my life as something other than a spectacular failure.
The office park was empty; none of the other businesses were open on Saturdays. My kids and I unloaded baskets holding rubber balls of all kinds of sizes and colors and headed into the empty shell of the law firm.
Some of the balls were as big as my youngest, a rambunctious and enthusiastic two-year-old.
For the next two and a half hours, my kids, ages two, four, six, and eight, ran through the hallways screaming, laughing, and chasing bouncing balls.
That day from more than thirteen years ago is still one of my favorite memories.
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