The larger question, of course, is whether Mr. Lyle, a 34-year-old bachelor, could ever get married considering all he's seen.

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Was it owing to the crash that I was not married, that I was ever-mindful of time, that people seemed to tell me what they told no one else?

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But investors also need to look at where that money is going, lest they find themselves married to an Amazon-like company of fat top lines and ever-thin bottom ones.

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