…..she was so certain she was infallible that she looked upon advice as charity, some useless commodity to be distributed at random exclusively to the stupid and the feckless and the dregs of society, but definitely unbecoming to someone of her magisterial dignity. Then one day–by sheer happenstance and through no fault of her own–she became one of those aforementioned miscreants, and her perspective abruptly pivoted and did an about-face. She was now of the proper mindset to accept hand-outs, including and especially salient words of wisdom…..
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