Contributed by Steve Shepherd on Dec 18, 2009
                    
                
                    
            
            
            
            
            
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                    Here’s some good solid advice for making the new year better.
1- The new year - Be careful 
2- The new year - Be thoughtful 
3- The new year - Be thankful 
                
                    
                        INTRO.- ILL.- Pete, at a New Year’s party, turns to his friend, Ken, and asks for a cigarette.  “I thought you made a New Year’s resolution to quit smoking," Ken responds. 
“I’m in the process of quitting,” replies Pete with a grin.  “Right now, I am in the middle of phase one.”
“Phase one?” 
                        
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