Had he not, he said, the list would have been redundant: a rundown of various trim lines of the S4 or Volkswagen GTI.

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Rotella, a trim 58-year-old with dark, bushy eyebrows and deeply etched laugh lines, has fashioned a career out of teaching the virtues of optimism.

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How exactly were you planning to trim the 60-foot oak that fell in my back yard, snapping the power lines feeding our neighborhood?

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