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Owning woodland and an island

um i probably i'd almost certainly buy a large wood and possibly an island oh yeah yeah you know to have a bit of autonomy that i think is that's the if you have independent mea...

Course: Life stories and relationshipsSection: Winning the lotterySubtitles: en

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and

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um

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i probably

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i'd almost certainly buy a large wood

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and possibly an island

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oh yeah yeah you know to have a bit of

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autonomy

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that i think is that's the

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if you have independent means as they

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say i think that's the thing it gives

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you it gives you

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autonomy and and that's quite important

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to me you know i'd help friends and

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family

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buy them properties buy them whatever

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they needed like a stability yeah yeah

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i'd definitely buy my sister a house

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because she's not she hasn't got one and

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i don't really know what i'd do for my

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mom because she's quite elderly she

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hasn't really got a lot of time left and

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she wouldn't want to go anywhere but

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i'd probably get her more care or

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something like that like a health

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investment or something yeah something

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yeah okay or you know big pots of caviar

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for her last few days that sort of thing

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just sort of indulge her in

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a word in the swedish language called

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legume

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which means enough

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and it's uh informs quite a lot of the

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way that people in scandinavia think

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about

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wealth

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and possessions

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and it really does

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get to a sort of fundamental

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philosophical point about um how much

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you really need

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