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Polonius Was Right

“When we lend something we risk losing both the thing we lend and the friendship with that other person.”
—Polonius in Shakespeare’s Hamlet

hings in my life seem to escalate from the most innocuous of events. It seems as though something as small as a mental leaf falling on my personal snowy slope ends up triggering a mighty avalanche. In this case, I got a new tool chest. I am an inveterate tool collector, and my big red Craftsman tool chest had finally refused to close. The tool that caused the

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