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20 Reasons to Thank Someone (Anybody Edition)

1. They introduced you to that amazing little coffee shop you'd never noticed before.
2. They let you know you dropped a $10 bill instead of just picking it up and walking away quietly.
3. They let you go in front of them in the grocery line because you only had three things and they had 50 million.
4. The toilet paper incident. 'Nuff said.
5. They thanked you with chocolate.
6. They suggested you try what would become your new favorite wine.
7. They actually noticed your new hair cut.
8. They complimented you on fantastic sense of fashion/humor/taste/mind-reading.
9. They kept you from making a fool out of yourself in front of strangers.
10. They invited you to a ridiculously fun party where you met some crazy new people.
11. They invited you to a ridiculously boring party where everyone spoke only in five-syllable words, but had the best spread you've ever seen.
12. They suggested a trick that cured your acne/dandruff/unsightly itch/horrendous bad breath.
13. They found out about your affinity for chocolate anything and brought over some of their famous Die-Happy Brownies.
14. They fetched your keys after you dropped them down the elevator shaft. True story.
15. They rescued you from the brink of insanity by offering to take your moody and temperamental child for the evening.
16. They listened to your venting monologue about your boss/your coworker/your significant other with only sympathetic smiles and appropriately placed gasps.
17. They let you form your own opinion.
18. They helped you avert a ridiculously reputation-scarring situation without so much as a scratch.
19. They popped in just when you needed a friend.
20. They not only didn't take it personally when you snapped, but also recognized your stress and took the brunt of the crankiness even though it didn't have anything to do with them.

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