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" A good thank-you note is a clear and ruddy piece of prose. There are only two moves involved. First you remind the person what you are thanking them for. Then you tell them why. That&amp;#039;s it. You sign off, sure. And you might throw in an extra sentence or two for a laugh or a private joke. But it&amp;#039;s mostly a chop-chop exercise: two solid, sincere sentences, each touching on the heart of the matter. It isn&amp;#039;t all that tough.  My nieces and nephews get it. I have about six of their notes pinned to my fridge at any one time. My neighbor, the one whose trash can I drag to the street every Thursday night, she gets it, too. She writes me a thank-you note every three weeks or so. It always starts with the same first line: &amp;quot;Thank you again for helping me with my garbage cans.&amp;quot; The second line varies: &amp;quot;It really is a load off my mind,&amp;quot; &amp;quot;My arthritic hands just won&amp;#039;t allow me to do it myself,&amp;quot; or &amp;quot;I appreciate such reliable help more than I can say.&amp;quot; That sort of thing. Sometimes there&amp;#039;s a line about how much my children have grown or the emergence of the daylilies. Real gratitude is in the details. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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