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Sentimentality is not the same as connection

And how it could be limiting your connection to donors.

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Brad Smith
Apr 12, 2022
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Sentimental Hogwash? Maybe Mr. Potter had a point.

Every once in a while I get invited to a party thrown by dudes I haven’t seen in a long time. And the party plan is always the same: Meet at a bar, get really drunk, ignore our wives and children, stay out until 2am, wake up hungover, then try valiantly to piece together the late hours of the night. Th…

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