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The Rules of Falling Down

Follow these rules, and no matter how bad the fall, you’re a winner

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My wife drops me off at work in the morning, and most of the time it’s nice. We kiss. We sigh. We offer our traditional farewells: “Let’s quit our jobs and run away to other jobs and quit those and run away forever!”

But it wasn’t nice last Monday morning.

We were having an argument.

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I delivered a devastating line like, “Let’s never quit our jobs ever and stay here until we all die!” then I manfully got out of the car and walked away.

My wife and I have rules about walking away, a leaving procedure.

Step one: Leave.

Step two: Look back.

Step three: Wave.

It’s a lovely way to leave a place.

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Well, I didn’t look back.