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People’s propensity to shoot the messenger: Not much has changed since the days when Old Testament prophets walked the earth. Also, if you tell me you always want me to be honest with you, don’t snipe at me when part of that honesty is to deliver bad news.
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Falling apart: My wife has a tumor on her liver. This is unrelated to her previous diagnosis. It isn’t cancer and her spirits are strong, but I surely can’t wait until the day we can shed these decaying bodies of death.
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Inadequacy: One of my job duties is magazine design. I’m not terribly good at it, and it causes me more than a little anxiety on the weeks I have to do it. I enjoy learning new skills, but I could do without the overwhelming feeling of inadequacy that hits me when I stare at a blank page with a head empty of ideas.
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Evil: Every year more than 1 million children are brought into the sex trade through kidnapping and being sold to prostitution rings. Of that 1 million, UNICEF estimates up to 325,000 children in the United States are being sexually exploited. Children.
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Wall Street: Most of us probably worry more about the economic crisis than the above fact.