When Will You Budge from Your Grudge?

My next door neighbor, Cathy, despised my downstairs neighbor, George.

But no less than George despised Cathy.

In fact, Cathy landed up moving with her husband and their 6-year-old daughter out of their beautiful oceanfront penthouse condo to five hundred miles away because she could no longer stand encountering George in the hallways.

Before that, the situation had gotten so bad, Cathy actually filed a restraining order against George.

And George, who was on the condominium board, landed up suing the board for attorney fees after Cathy called the police on him and actually had him ‘arrested’ for one of those overblown incidences that occur when we let things get too far out of control.

If this sounds like an episode out of Seinfeld with Seinfeld’s South-Florida condo-living parents, it’s not. This is a true story.

But here’s the point:

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