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We Asked You Shared: Best Advice From Dad

What’s the best advice your father ever gave you? That was the question we asked and we received some great responses via social media.

Here are some of our favorites:  

“Always shake hands with a firm handshake. People have no trust in someone who shakes hands like a fish,” writes Kelly King.

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“Laugh with them, if you do, they will not laugh at you anymore,” writes Paris Pepoon, who says the advice worked.

And this sage advice Inna Feldman-Gerber’s dad gave when she was going to her first high school party, “Behave yourself, you might be asking the parents for a job one day.”

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