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[quote=Anonymous]I don't know if it was "suddenly" rich, but he earns a great salary plus extravagant bonuses and other perks.   He certainly sacrifices a lot for it though.  He has worked in some pretty terrible locations--including a stint in Siberia where he had to take multiple trains/helicopters/etc. just to get to "camp."

He is extraordinarily generous.   He has paid my way for vacations (especially when I have come to visit him in foreign locations like Shanghai) and gives my children (for a long time, his only nephews/nieces--and he had no kids of his own) nice gifts.
He is also kind to strangers--once at an airport he overheard that a woman on his flight was going to be given the last available seat assignment--it was a middle seat in the last row.   She was visibly pregnant and he knew she'd be uncomfortable.   He offered her his first class seat and took that middle seat in coach instead.
He is amazing!

FWIW, a few weeks ago, there was a thread where the OP didn't want to hear about her parents vacation.   I posted that my parents also took lavish vacations, yet "talked up" a vacation they wanted to take my kids on, but when it came time to book airfare, asked me for money knowing we couldn't afford it--my brother ended up giving the money for the airfare.  He is so kind.[/quote]

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