You can draw whatever life lessons you like from that, but the main thing is clear: No one should ever be afraid for Mariano Rivera, and if by some chance he decides to come back for another year, he'll devise some way to make it another nearly perfect one.

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So for me, if I'm a small business employer, and you've come into me, you shook my hand, looked me in the eye and said I will do this job for X, and then you come back the next day and complain about it, why would I ever want to work with you again?

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"Some families and some lives have come back together quickly and well, and some people are up and running almost as if nothing ever happened, and for them it's been fine, " New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said at a news conference Thursday.

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