"The only way to establish intimacy is to be willing to open up about yourself, " says David Bakke, 46, an editor at a personal-finance website.

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If you are willing to explore alternative behaviors, you open yourself up to possibilities that you never dreamed of.

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By being too public, you open yourself up to these kinds of catastrophes.

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But in this day and age, when you open yourself up, you have to take the good with the bad.

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If an act of nature, a specific supplier or some other uncontrollable act can make it impossible for you to fulfill a contract (and thus open yourself up to legal action) then you should be putting to ink that you are not liable for incomplete work due to these factors.

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Mr. GREG DIETZ (Owner, Theo's Neighborhood Pizza): If you are able to open yourself back up after the hurricane, uptown, you did very well.

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You can even open up an account for yourself if you are planning on going back to college or graduate school in a few years.

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He and Madonna performed a mash-up of Open Your Heart and Express Yourself.

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You're leaving yourself wide open if you think you can leave everything up to him.

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The browser will open up with a solution map plus route and you will not have to torture yourself with the slow and inefficient browser search methods.

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