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    I’m Cold

    Rob learns that in show business, if you try to be nice, you won’t get any credit, but if you don’t try, it’ll be worse. As usual, this applies beyond show business.

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    By Rob Long • Aug 6, 2014 • 3m Listen

    I have a friend who wanted to do something romantic and thoughtful for his wife.Apparently, there are still husbands like this. She had endured a tough week, he told me. One of the kids was sick, there was a big crisis at her job, the kitchen remodeling job was suddenly delayed – it was a constellation of stress-inducing events, and he wanted to do something sweet to acknowledge how rough it had been on her...

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