My first Sunday after joining Trammell Crow, I received a call from Trammell himself, asking me to come down to the office to go over a deal.

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She was asking me because, twice already, I too had waited for my husband to come home from a war first Afghanistan, then Iraq.

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Some come by e-mail, in a note from an artist asking me to view his work, or a press release from an auction house or a museum, or a request by a PR agent to speak with a special client.

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