         When you don't need to work for survival, purpose is all there is. And when you're twenty-one and you don't have the necessity to get out there, it's an enormous thing to struggle with at a young age. What do I need to do? I don't need to do anything! I feel like the money I inherited is like a muting forcelike right after a snowstorm, when everything is white and quiet and sort of neutralized. I feel like I've been subdued. Nothing stands out more than anything else.
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I N T R O D U C T I O N p a g e 3
There is much about John Dawson that, we believe, other heirs will recognize. John is surrounded by people who differ from him in one essential way: none of them is an heir. John is acutely aware of being different, and he is even more acutely uncomfortable with having so much more than others. He has not revealed to his friends and co-workers that he has an inheritance, and he longs to make friends with someone like himself.
The Inheritance Project has conducted in-depth interviews with about eighty-five inheritors, and the process continues. Almost all those we have talked with have made relationships primarily with people who have less money than they do. In this article, we take a look at what happens when heirs get close to those with little or no wealth.
The subject of heirs and their relationships is vast. We have chosen to pare it down to a manageable size by discussing two kinds of relationships: friends and couples. And, at the article's end, a few words about community.
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