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LET YOURSELF BE BORED

My mother, like so many mothers, must have gone crazy from hearing the refrain over and over and over again:

“Mom, I’m bored.”

My oldest brother, helping our dad in our vegetable garden, asked after about five minutes, “Dad, do you still have to keep working after you’re bored?” My dad found this particularly amusing, since he was an HR manager who dealt

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