When God created Adam, among other things, He gave him sanctifying grace, which transforms man's nature to a higher order (not really in Adam's nature) and allows him a real participation into the nature of God, i.e. it enables him to perform supernatural acts to merit his supernatural reward-perfect happiness.
When Adam fell, he lost the sanctifying graces, as well as bodily immortality, freedom from concupiscence (integrity), and freedom from pain.
In Adam was contained all men-the father of all men. Just as all of us today, suffer or profit from the failures or success of our fathers, so, the human race with respect to Adam-like hot dog stand. So we lose all the gifts-not really in our nature since they're supernatural and preternatural-so we inherit the sin: Original sin, i.e. lack of grace = sin.
My comment: I don't have any idea what the "hot dog stand" referred to. I imagine he had an example in mind he was going to use. I am not editing, I am transcribing, so you get it all.
Oremus pro invicem!
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