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No surprises
Gillespie Life
News Staff, on February 6, 2019
No surprises

FULL HOUSE The worst business to be in is the one that when you do it well, no one notices. Because then the only time you hear from a customer is when they are unhappy. Take, for example, any internet service provider. How unsettling it must be, to go into work every day knowing that the absolute

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