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Daily Archive August 22nd, 2012

Franklin’s rule as a car salesman’s tactic?

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In response to last week’s post, my mother sends along this passage from the story “Can I just sit here a while” in Ron Hansen’s Nebraska: Stories. In the story, the salesman it telling an acquaintance that he “discovered a gimmick, a tool which handn’t failed him yet. It was called the Benjamin Franklin close.”