youthful affluence not as a lost ideal but a starting point 
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(ROOT (NP (NP (JJ ) (NN )) (PP (RB ) (IN ) (NP (NP (DT ) (VBN ) (NN )) (CC ) (NP (DT ) (VBG ) (NN ))))))