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Frame every so-called disaster with these words: In five years, will this matter?

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Regina Brett
Age: 68
Born: 1956
Born: May 31
Columnist
Journalist
Writer
Ravenna
Ohio
Disaster
Attitude
Called
Five
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Matter
Every
Years
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Summer is the annual permission slip to be lazy. To do nothing and have it count for something. To lie in the grass and count the stars. To sit on a branch and study the clouds.
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Don't take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
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