The Fuller Brush man made regular rounds in our Lower East Side neighborhood in New York City.

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"There was a Fuller Brush salesman buried inside me waiting for the opportunity to come out, " he says.

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Such questions have infected corporate sales departments since the 1950s age of the Fuller Brush salesman, with less-than-perfect results.

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