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how to say no when you have more to do than time to do it

Jean hit the snooze button again. How many more times could she hit it before she had to get up? Each time she pushed the button she got ten more blessed minutes of sleep before being reawakened by a hissing blast of radio static. She’d been so tired the night before that she’d pushed a wrong button on their new system. She didn’t yet know how to tune it properly to her favorite station, and she hadn’t wanted to interrupt her husband’s TV show to ask him to do it for her.

“You’re a big girl, you can figure it out,” Lou would have responded, implying that she was both technologically ...

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