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Unsolicited advice is always self-serving.

Amy Dickinson

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Amy Dickinson
Age: 65
Born: 1959
Born: November 6
Columnist
Freeville
New York
Always
Unsolicited
Serving
Advice
Women
Self

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If nothing changes, you will have to put your disappointment in perspective.
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This is a tough situation. But it is what it is, and time has an amazing way of knitting together solutions as long as everybody stays calm and resolves to be as gentle and patient as possible.
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