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About four and a half years ago, when Lynn Martin first offered me the opportunity to write a weekly column for the ARC Friday edition, I felt really honored and raring to go. He warned me that, given time, a weekly deadline (even just one) could become a difficult task. After decades of turning in his weekly words of wisdom, he was more than aware of how taxing it can be just to decide on a subject. This afternoon (Tuesday) I was just over a paragraph into my latest offering when I realized it sounded vaguely familiar. Sure enough, I wrote something very similar only a few months ago.

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