They see him more as an urbane, city-bred interloper, parachuting into the "other India", commiserating with the poor, and then returning to Delhi.

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So instead of commiserating with your co-workers, provide a positive example by plowing through your backlog of work and maintaining an optimistic attitude.

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After an awful first year, Allison ended up commiserating with the widow of a friend who had suddenly died of a heart attack.

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As I was commiserating with him over our cell phones, it occurred to me that we were both holding up to our ears powerful general-purpose computers.

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