“…Having an artificial island would bring significant synergy to all my business ventures. First, installing a private prison on the island would make inmate management far more convenient and, in emergencies, allow it to be removed from the mainland… (continues)…”

I had memorized nearly ten full A4 pages of this. All for the purpose of convincing my aunt.

Why I need the island, what I plan to do with it, what benefits she would gain by giving it to me.

All of these things I’d practiced reciting without a single mistake to present before her.

Of course, I didn’t write …