I inherited my parents' small business even though I didn't want it. I vowed not to do the same thing to my son.

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• From the time I was a boy, I was raised to inherit the family legacy.
• No one asked me if that was what I wanted, and I sacrificed my own career and life goals to do it.
• When I learned that I was going to be a dad, I set a goal for my son not to experience what I did.

Some of my earliest memories are connected to my family's business, Mott's Miniatures, in Buena Park, California.

It was a museum that depicted the history of America in miniature.