Step up and explain your connection to Dr. Willke, and his unusual beliefs, and do it soon.

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Recognition in turn connects you with the people who recognize and value you, which brings you back to step 1, connect, and deepens the connection.

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The judge, after hearing the extent of Ms. Chiesi's connection to the latest case, decided she didn't need to step aside.

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Bulgari's Francesco Trapani took this competition a step further in 2001 when he commissioned Fay Weldon, a well-regarded British novelist, to write The Bulgari Connection, a novel about a woman jailed for trying to run over her ex-husband's new wife.

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