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Opinion: Cure for post-election anxiety? Learn to live with uncertainty

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In post-election America, we will have to learn to live with a certain level of uncertainty.

Many of us have spent the last few weeks obsessing about Tuesday’s presidential election.

The presidential candidates have been obsessed with us as well.

Strangers clogged our phones with text messages asking us to vote. Organizations filled our mailboxes with flyers touting the candidates’ attributes.

Canvassers came to our doors. Pollsters asked our opinions.