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Monday, January 31, 2022
Remember your first bad breakup?
I bet it was painfully brutal. The weeks full of tears. The instant anger at the sight of life itself. The endless worrying if your ex was already seeing someone else. The parking outside of their house from 9 p.m. to 4 a.m. with the lights off to watch if they went anywhere (or was that just … ahh never mind there, let’s keep it moving).
The point here being is that you were emotionally vulnerable. So vulnerable and raw in fact you probably took your ex back after their barrage of sweet-talk (or back in my day, after sending “143” 50 times to their translucent blue Motorola beeper).
I think this is where a legion of investors enter February following a painful start to the year…
