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Everyday Diplomacy

By Joseph Hart — 2007

Your idea of a great Sunday is to rise with the sun for a long run. Your partner, however, has other ideas. His notion of a proper Sunday involves sleeping late and enjoying a leisurely brunch over the Sunday paper. You’ve been doing it his way for months, but you’re starting to resent having to neglect a core value for what seems to you like his whim. Finally, you decide it’s time to reclaim your Sundays.

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