The Rake

Letter from the Founder

or the majority of my life I’ve been underestimated. And I wouldn’t have had it any other way. I vividly recall, when I was a child, my grandmother inviting a fortune teller to divine the potential trajectory of my life. In particular, I remember that after a great deal of amateur dramatics, joss-stick throwing, I Ching consulting, palm reading and star-chart mapping, the fortune teller resoundingly declared that I would probably not amount to much. That’s exactly what I needed

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