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My other<\/em> point of pride is how quickly and how well some of my dear readers (and great friends) offered up resources to help out The Brooding Persian<\/a>. I forwarded everyone’s messages to him, and he was enormously grateful. He’s going to try to follow through with our advice and see where it gets him.<\/p>\n

Thanks to everybody who pitched in on this. I’m proud to have such good and caring friends.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

My other point of pride is how quickly and how well some of my dear readers (and great friends) offered up resources to help out The Brooding Persian. I forwarded everyone’s messages to him, and he was enormously grateful. He’s going to try to follow through with our advice and see where it gets him. … <\/p>\n

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