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What I've learnt - through the tender squeeze of faith - on several incidents in my life, is that people will put up with all the quirks of my idiosyncrasies so long as you're giving them what they want. They'll unload their somber despondence just as easily as they'd join laughter, the adventurous anecdotes and the chaotic mayhem so long as you're doing your job well, but the minute you're not, you're fucked; they'll wipe their hands of you without a second glance.