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Reason to keep new year's expectations low

The 2013 Times Square New Year's Eve Ball

Photo credit: Getty Images | The 2013 Times Square New Year's Eve Ball at One Times Square in New York City. (Dec. 27, 2012)

Ellis Henican

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It's so arbitrary. A 2 becomes a 3, and somehow that's supposed to change everything.

It never does, of course. And yet here we are again, ringing in another new year with the usual naive exuberance, as if we didn't go through exactly the same hope-and-disappointment ritual last year, the year before and the year before that.

Happy Memory Loss!

We can't blame the under-1 crowd...

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