100 million dollars!!
There had been condescending eyes, disgusted gazes, bored expressions, fed-up faces, and lots of other similar reactions in the crowd, but when I mentioned 100 million, everyone straightened up.
They stared at me first with disbelief, and then they looked at Amber.
In the grand scheme of the world, 100 million wasn't a groundbreaking sum. To the big-time billionaires and multi-billionaires, it was money for casual investments. But for people like us, in this age and time, it was heavyweight.
Even for most of those coming from nouveau riche families, not yet 30 years old, how much could their families really give them?
The likes of Mark Zuckerberg were still several years away. Right now, a 30-year-old with 500 million in his account would be welcomed to the table of the grand old men as an exceptional prospect.
What we were talking about here was charity—just normal, casual charity.
