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Not a sore winner

Just got back from Christmas shopping in Baton Rouge all day. While I was away, I received the following communication from my wife:

A little while ago I got a call from somebody in the president of AT&T’s office. His name was Tom, and he couldn’t have been nicer. Somebody had sent him your blog post, and he was afraid that whoever answered was going to bite his head off. He’s my new best friend, and I told him he was lucky my husband was away for the day. He told me he was going to make it right, and he did. We now have wi-fi, thanks to the great Tom Jordan, his lovely sidekick Betsy, and the hands-on assistance of Paul Stewart, who was super-fun.

You are going to write a blog post telling your readers what happened, and you are going to use the names of the AT&T people who helped us. They were great. And you are going to be nice about it, and not say another ugly word. You are not going to be a sore winner. That’s my message to you.

She means it too. I hear and obey, as I inform you of this happy outcome via my new and working wi-fi.

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Rod Dreher is a senior editor at The American Conservative. He has written and edited for the New York Post, The Dallas Morning News, National Review, the South Florida Sun-Sentinel, the Washington Times, and the Baton Rouge Advocate. Rod’s commentary has been published in The Wall Street Journal, Commentary, the Weekly Standard, Beliefnet, and Real Simple, among other publications, and he has appeared on NPR, ABC News, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC, and the BBC. He lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, with his wife Julie and their three children. He has also written four books, The Little Way of Ruthie Leming, Crunchy Cons, How Dante Can Save Your Life, and The Benedict Option.

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