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GRATITUDE FOR THE LOUSY INGRATE

On a busy road in a neighborhood in the city where I live, there was a garage door I used to give the finger to every time I passed by.

It was a pretty regular garage door in every way, except that stenciled on it, in two-foot-high letters, were the words be grateful.

Nothing got my back up like that garage door.

“What on earth are you doing,” my husband asked, the first time I broke out of our

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