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He upgrades the tirade.
“You get out here and you work yourself to death. I’m 37 and I feel like death and look like I’m 50, and I have one daughter who is a year away from driving a car, and where the hell did my life go? I moved here from the hustle and bustle of life in Vienna (Austria) and what happened? I don’t ever wonder what day of the week it is. I wonder what month it is.”
And, despite indications to the contrary, he really is not complaining.
fie says, “Just listen for a moment to the silence out here. It’s beautiful, just beautiful.”
Pairs of bluebirds fly by, swifts skim the surface of his pool, butterflies crowd an eponymous bush, the clouds drift by, the family’s seven chickens cluck in the hen house. When he stops talking and listens and watches, he knows why he moved to Rappahannock six years ago. He loves the place.
Combs is a true original, who thinks so far out of the box you would think the cube had not yet been invented. He is an entrepreneur who is competing against invisible adversaries all over the world. In his mind, they are younger, faster, smarter. And to succeed, he has to get the drop on them all, 24/7. Plus do the hay.
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The Combs’ family moved to northern Virginia, “because of our kids,” says Combs. “We could have gone anywhere.” They bought Bellevue, a mansion in Fauquier County, which they sold in 1998 (to AOL founder Steve Case) “because we felt crowded,”
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