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Rob tries to step around the nasty arguments on Facebook without stepping in any of them, and still ends up having to scrape some of them off his shoe.

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By Rob Long • Aug 17, 2016 • 3m Listen

This week I got the sad and sudden news that an old classmate of mine -- someone I haven't seen since we were both in our very early teens -- died suddenly in her sleep. There was no warning, there were no signs -- it was, as people say, "just one of those awful, tragic things..."

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