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We had always known that our son Brian was a "special sausage", as I liked to call him. When he was six years old, he had already made three million dollars, taught himself to play over a hundred musical instruments, and learned most of the world's languages. He had also read a lot of books. When he advised us to use the equity from our mortgage to buy index funds in 2009, we took him seriously even if the markets had taken a beating recently. Brian told us that was the reason he believed it was a good time to invest.

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Allan dolloped a big lump of mashed potatoes onto Brian's plate. "There you go, son. You probably know what you're on about."

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I said to my six year-old son, "I think you are a little young to be giving us financial advice now, sweetheart."

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But of course Allan took Brian to the bank in the morning, and they both invested eighty percent of their equity in index funds in 2009 and of course they became very rich over the next few years. Now I wonder why I achieved all my career ambitions to become a senior lecturer at La Trobe University. My prepubescent son and a man who still smoked inside were making multiples of my excellent salary.

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When Brian was seven years old he began making a durable nuclear-powered time capsule that would emit a signal to attract the attention of people living in the future, as far away as three hundred million years, and invite them to visit him on July 12, 2009 – the day he had the idea. It was his latest attempt to make contact with time travellers, but he also wanted to test his multiverse theory. That was when things started getting weird.

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"This book was more relatable than The Philosophical Thoughts of Adam Mathews, which was itself unputdownable."

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- Gloria Furtwangler

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The most intelligent person in the galaxy

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