Well, I've messed up again, it seems.
Apparently at least some people got the wrong idea from a column I wrote about two weeks ago regarding my lovely hometown of Mobile, Ala., being found to be the seventh most stressful city in the country. A fellow named Bert Sperling of Sperling's BestPlaces made this assessment and has yet to contact me regarding his reasons.
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