Call it a professional hazard. Most of my meetings with friends start with a standard line: hey, I was thinking of calling you. Would you please give me numbers of some good financial planners or advisors? Nothing wrong with the request per se, considering I write on the topic. But the trouble is that we have been through the same drill many times in the past
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