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Lesson #1: Stick With It
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| “When everything seems to be going against you, remember that the airplane takes off against the wind, not with it,” said Ford. |
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Lesson #4: Embrace Your Obstacles
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| “When faced with a business challenge, evaluate or assess the situation, gather the good things in sight, abandon the bad, clear your mind, and move on,” says Stewart. |
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Lesson #4: Know Your Business Inside Out
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| “I try to keep in touch with the details,” says Murdoch. “I also look at the product daily. That doesn't mean you interfere, but it's important occasionally to show the ability to be involved. It shows you understand what's happening.” |
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Lesson #3: The Boss Can Come Back
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| If there is one thing Steinbrenner is famous for besides his ability to manage a great baseball team, it is his ability to get himself into trouble. From being banned from baseball for life to feuding with and changing managers 20 times, Steinbrenner is no stranger to controversy. But what is even more remarkable, is his ability to bounce back and reclaim the team he worked so hard to promote. |
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Trimming Startups, One Inscrutable Position at a Time
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| From Lucy Kellaway in the FT, a rule that I'm going to apply at more startups:
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Guerrilla Proposals
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| It's at Proposal Time That The Rubber Meets the Road. To Get The Best Ride Possible, You've Got to Present a Guerrilla Proposal. Here's How. |
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The Lazarus Philosophy: The Danger of Expectations and The Beauty of Duty
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| Here are some excellent tenets of self-interested (not self-centered) lifestyle design from The Notebooks of Lazarus Long by the inimitable Robert Heinlein: |
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California's Not a Big Entrepreneurship State
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| In playing with Google Insight I started checking trends on entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship. Has that sort of thing become, you know, passe, since the dot-com bubble burst and the Web 2.0 thing is waning? Or is it growing, at least as evidenced by people's search behavior on Google? |
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Smile and the Whole World Smiles with You, Cry and You Cry Alone
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| Smile! Did you ever have a stranger come up to you and say that? Well, I did. I was waiting in line at the bank the other day (which is not unusual), and someone said that to me. She also added, "Things can't be that bad, can they?" I wasn't feeling bad about anything - just thinking something through. I guess I must have had a serious expression on my face. |
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What If Certain Things Just Don't Add Up?
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| It's OK when things don't always make sense! |
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How to sell new business meetings - the greatest secret revealed
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| Do you want to know the greatest secret of selling new business meetings for sales prospecting. Its really easy to do and can double or triple your effectiveness overnight. Find out what it is here.... |
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How Top MLM Leaders explode their business
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| So what is the difference between the top MLM leaders and the other 97% of people who join MLMs? |
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DON’T WORRY – BE HAPPY. Entrepreneurs must ENJOY
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| Did you know that somewhere in the back of your mind - beneath a pile of thoughts - there is a “Happiness Contract” with a lot of small print, i.e. rules, conditions, laws, and beliefs that dictate what it will take before you'll feel happy?
On closer inspection, you will also find other contracts buried in your mind like “The Success Contract” and “The Abundance Contract” and the “Love Contract.” These contracts are statements of belief which influence how much joy you think is possible and how much is just too good to be true.
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Over Connecting
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| The distrust and confusion of receiving a random "connection/friend" request. This approach of sending several friend requests to strangers is awkward enough if done purely for social/personal reasons, but is particularly dangerous if done primarily for business networking reasons |
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AN A.W.A.R.D.
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| To Help With Difficult Customers
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How to Use Twitter Effectively to Make Six Figures Or More! ~FINALLY EXPOSED!
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| Have you used twitter before? Well if you are a Internet Marketer then you probably have an account and you know there is an enormous amount of money to be made if you know how to market correctly on twitter. But 90% of people marketing on twitter are marketing on twitter are getting no results. They have no clue what they're doing. Well find out here from Omari what 90% of marketers using twitter don't know. |
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Are Customers begging you for discounts?
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| When a customer begs you for a discount you can simply reply with yes or no, or you can employ a strategy to address the request and reposition your offering in a more valuable light. |
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HOW YOU CAN FORGE YOUR NEW LIFE OUT OF THE FINANCIAL MELTDOWN
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| You can let the financial meltdown run your life, or you can run your own life. The shortage of money – actual or feared – is causing people to look for a new direction in life. You have some powerful natural weapons at your disposal to help you forge the direction you always wanted to go. Your authentic inner self knows what I am talking about. |
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No one sees a Naked Telemarketer
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| In my humble opinion, cold calling is a waste of time. When was the last time you purchase something from a cold call telemarketer? |
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Why Cold Calling does NOT work, using traditional methods
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| So what is the secret to highly successful cold calling? Why is it that some people always seem to get the appointment? Do they use some new fangled tricks that you can only learn at hugely expensive telesales training courses? If you want to find a simple way of boosting your sales, using the phone, without the rejection, then read the rest of this article. So what do you do next - you ask them what I call a "problem statement" question. |
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Home Staging Marketing Tactics That Will Put You Out of Business Pt. 1
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| The Staging Diva®, shares some of the worst marketing tactics she has seen carried out by home stagers. |
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Warning: Are You Being Hit With The Outrageous Askers?
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| Right now, I'd bet that within the past 90 days you've been asked to do some pretty outrageous things. It really could be anything -as in these tough economic times people have to get creative. Some of the requests are an immediate NO (and I don't blame you) however some of them may be worth thinking twice about. |
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Fill 'er Up This Holiday Season!
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| 3 Simple Steps for filling the tanks of our family and friends, our customers and prospects, and everyone else we have the privilege of interacting with on a daily basis. |
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Think of Others First If You Want to Increase Sales
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| Is sales about you or the other guy? Many will say the other guy, but their behaviors are all about them. Read why thinking of others first will increase sales. |
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SHYNESS INHIBITS SUCCESS
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| To succeed you have to overcome shyness. |
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Questions You MUST Ask Before You Appoint A Bookkeeper
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| The decision to let go of your business bookkeeping is not one that people take lightly, after all, you are letting a stranger into the inner sanctum of your business and private life, and your finances.
So how do you know that they are trustworthy, responsible, discrete, accurate, professional and competent? |
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Help Your Way to More Sales
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| People buy because they want something they don’t have, they want to avoid something, or they want to solve a problem. They’re looking for someone to help them. Can you be the exact person to provide that help? |
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How to Build a Sales Relationship
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| There’s a natural progression that has to occur between you and your future clients. At the time of the first point of connection you were complete strangers. They didn’t know you, they didn’t know anything about you, and they didn’t have any reason to want to know anything about you. |
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Get Them to Act on Your Sales Offer
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| How do you get a complete stranger to buy from you? That’s one of the biggest challenges you face. Your ability to overcome that challenge greatly impacts your sales success. |
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What do You do about Slow Sales?
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| Slow sales have little to do with the economy and everything to do with you. Now don’t get mad. Get sales. |
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How to Make Getting Sales Success Easier
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| Man, sometimes it feels like everything depends on you. If you let up for one second you’re falling behind. Can you keep up the pace? |
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How One Ordinary Salesperson Could Get Extraordinary Sales Results
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| You’d be very surprised if you knew the difference between you and the top producers. If you’re an average or above average producer it isn’t as if there are huge differences between the way you do things, and the way top producers do things. Yet, those small differences in approach have a huge impact on your results. |
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The Second Sale You Have to Make for Increased Sales
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| You already know the first sale you have to make is you have to sell yourself. In that you have to sell yourself on the value of what you offer. After all if you wouldn’t buy it you certainly can’t expect anyone else to buy it. |
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Fill'er Up With Love
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| We often encounter people whose tanks are dry. Here are 3 things you can do to help someone FILL 'ER UP!
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Reflections of Sept 11
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| September brings with it both endings and beginnings. Summer has ended, a new school year has begun. 9/11 brought many dreams, wishes and lives to an end. However, rising up from that tragedy were many new beginnings.
This article is dedicated to those who are no longer with us as well as those of us who are still
very much alive and creating new beginnings in our lives everyday. Is today the day to make a new beginning for yourself? |
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Will You Ignore The Stranger Next To You?
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| The best way to get new clients is to always be expanding your network. This article will show you how -- because you never know where it will lead. |
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A Message from Your Empty Nest
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| An empty nest exposes the cracks and wrinkles in a relationship like nothing else. Midlife presents an opportunity to move your primary relationship into a whole new dimension. |
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The Very First Step to Internet Riches
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| This may be the most important tip on making money on the Internet that you will ever receive, and it's not going to cost you a single cent. |
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The PR Journey
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| Starting a public relations campaign is just that, a start. Don’t think you’ve learned all there is to know in a couple of months. Also, beware of the well meaning PR know-it-alls. Set a direction and stick to it. |
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Why Do You Buy?
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| What makes you buy one thing and not another? Is it because of price, quality, uniqueness, or is it something else? |
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Family Business
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| Don’t do it! At least that’s what some experts say. I’m not going to tell you what to do, but here are some issues you want to consider before going into business with family. |
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Make It Easy To Buy From Your Site
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| Convincing your prospects to purchase from you is a hard job, but have you ever thought that you're making the process twice as difficult for both parties if your prospects are convinced but don't know how to buy from you? |
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Ways To Improve Sales Through Your Website
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| The first method is to weave in your personal touch in your sales message. Nobody wants to be sold to by a total stranger, but many people will buy what their close friends recommend to them. If you can convince your audience that you are a personal friend who has their best interest at heart, they will be convinced to buy your products. Remember to speak to an individual in your salesletter, not to your whole audience. |
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Creating Your Own Online Tutoring Service
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| In today's unstable economy many people have cut down their travel and overall expenses through the use of online instant messaging, email, social networking sites, forums, video conferencing, etc. Why not take advantage of these new trends and apply them to work at home with an online tutoring business? |
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Determining The Real Cost Of A Free Home Business
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| You have seen the promotions, usually online about you can start a home business absolutely free. Simply register, click on the sign me up button and you can start making money within 10 minutes. Although some of these promotions are becoming more realistic, knowing that precious few will start making money in ten minutes... |
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Cold Calls - A New Way to Open
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| Cold Calling Tips to Create Openings for Real Conversation! |
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Aikido and The Art of Selling
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| Imagine being in a crowded concert or bar. All of a sudden, a fight breaks out between two men who’ve had too much to drink. |
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Your Business’s Reputation: An Invisible (yet essential) Asset
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| Not knowing the kind of reputation your business has can come back to bite you when you decide to sell. Most people interested in buying a small business (or even a large one) will do some investigating into the reputation of your business. Of course they won’t ask you – they’ll ask your employees, your vendors and suppliers, your customers, your competitors, and local community.
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A Nine-Step Approach For Coaches, Consultants, and Business Advisors to Get All the Clients that You Can Handle
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| Provides a framework for business advisors to generate business. |
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Christmas Carols can help you manage holiday stress!
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| Yes, those Christmas Carols we hear every year can help us manage the holiday stress. Check out these helpful tips ... |
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The redistribution of poverty
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| Governments and social movements the world over often call for the redistribution of wealth; that the people with money and assets should give some of these to the poor. They believe that it is merely the absence of cash that makes poor people poor. They are wrong. |
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Are You Guilty Of Interruption Marketing
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| You muted the commercials on the TV last night because you were fed up with interruption marketing. Ditto if you went through your mail to find most of it is junk. Ditto again, if a stranger phoned you (usually at dinner time) asking you to answer a survey, or give to yet another worthy cause. |
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Handshake Protocol
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| When you encounter a business associate, it is customary to offer your hand in greeting. In fact, the amount of rapport you achieve through three hours of interaction with a stranger is automatically created by the physical touch of that initial handshake. |
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Stranger Than Fiction
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| Exploring the movie Stranger Than Fiction and the important questions it raises in how we live our lives.
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Self-Help: How a Ph.D. and Three-Pin Juggling Can Save Your Life
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| For some non-apparent (at least to me) reason, I get a lot of emails of the what-should-I-do-with-my-life sort. People seemingly think that, given a few professional and personal facts from a stranger, I can tell them how to proceed in their careers. I usally beg off politely, pointing out the impossibility of answering the question, even when you know the person well. |
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Get Them to Act on Your Sales Offer
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| How do you get a complete stranger to buy from you? That’s one of the biggest challenges you face. Your ability to overcome that challenge greatly impacts your sales success. |
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Questions You MUST Ask Before You Appoint A Bookkeeper
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| The decision to let go of your business bookkeeping is not one that people take lightly, after all, you are letting a stranger into the inner sanctum of your business and private life, and your finances.
So how do you know that they are trustworthy, responsible, discrete, accurate, professional and competent? |
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Needed - One More Friend
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| Somebody once said that a stranger is simply a friend you haven't met. The dictionary says that a friend is one who is attached to another by affection which leads him to desire his company, or one who has sufficient interest to serve another. |
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Beyond Your Tasks
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| Ever hear the story of the two masons working side by side at a building site? They're doing the same work under pretty much the same conditions. One day a stranger comes along, approaches one of the men and asks, "What are you doing?"
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The Pursuit of Fast and Easy money – A road to disaster
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| Daegen had walked to the nearest grocery store at around midnight to buy himself a Gatorade. When in queue the person behind him tapped his shoulder and asked for a $1. Daegen asked him what he needed the money for. The stranger started off by telling that he did not have any money and that he had just got out of prison and did not have a job. Daegen, out of curiosity, asked him why he went to jail in the first place? The stranger said that he used to run cocaine from city to another and that he got caught. He was sentenced to 20 years in prison. As if things were not bad, around the 8th year an inmate... |
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Smile and the Whole World Smiles with You, Cry and You Cry Alone
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| Smile! Did you ever have a stranger come up to you and say that? Well, I did. I was waiting in line at the bank the other day (which is not unusual), and someone said that to me. She also added, "Things can't be that bad, can they?" I wasn't feeling bad about anything - just thinking something through. I guess I must have had a serious expression on my face. |
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