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#47 Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way

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How Joan and I Set Up Virgin Airways

The Virgin Islands government had decreed that whoever bought Nectar would have to develop it within five years of its ownership or its ownership would pass to them. It would cost a good deal to build a house and pipe the water across from the neighboring island but I was determined to make enough money to afford it. So in the very next paragraph, this section could be called how he gets Nectar Island and the idea for Virgin Airways. We were trying to catch a flight to Puerto Rico but the local Puerto Rican scheduled flight was canceled. The airport terminal was full of stranded passengers. And so they're staying on this thing called B-Fylons. Joan and I stayed on B-F

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