future is not totally in my control; am not the
⑦And there was (7) a second part to the message: the fact that I am not in
complete control of my life is not necessarily a bad thing. Closed doors guided
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me as much as open ones had. That's the message the present-day version of me
now understands, but the 1979 version of me could only believe.
That 1979 version of me who was rejected for TV jobs in Green Bay,
Greenville, and Jacksonville didn't know that his 1981 version would get a job
in a much bigger TV market in Los Angeles. He didn't know that his 1985 version
would [B] a woman there who was to be his lifelong companion, and that his
1991 version would be given a new opportunity for (8) advancement. That early
version of me didn't know that my 1999 self would eventually be laid off from
that job and then move his family to Canada to take a job at a national network.
But the present-day version of me can look back on all those events and see
(9) that, although none of them was completely under my control, each had
