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American author Daniel Handler - under the pen name Lemony Snicket - wrote a series of dark children's novels called A Series Of Unfortunate Events.
If Mr Danny Yong were to chronicle his rise from poor boy to millionaire entrepreneur and philanthropist, he would probably call it A Series Of Fortunate Events instead.
