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UCN Local Inbound enables us to give our customers the choice of having a local presence. We have found several instances where offering a local number to the customer makes more sense than just offering a toll-free number. UCN has put together the one-two punch that makes it easy to satisfy both requirements.


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MARGARET ATWOOD A home filled with nothing but yourself. It's heavy, that lightness. It's crushing, that emptiness.
MARGARET ATWOOD The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wron...
MARGARET ATWOOD She finds this objectivity of hers, this clarity, almost more depressing than she can bear, not beca...
MARGARET ATWOOD Fatigue is here, in my body, in my legs and eyes. That is what gets you in the end. Faith is only a ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Many believed what they were told: that the welfare of the entire kingdom depended on their selfless...
MARGARET ATWOOD She did understand, or at least she understood that she was supposed to understand. She understood, ...
MARGARET ATWOOD When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be whe...
MARGARET ATWOOD We do like to have such good opinions of our own motives when we're about to do something harmful, t...
MARGARET ATWOOD Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It's like the tide...
MARGARET ATWOOD I guess that's how they were able to do it, in the way they did, all at once, without anyone knowing...
MARGARET ATWOOD Night falls. Or has fallen. Why is it that night falls, instead of rising, like the dawn? Yet if you...
MARGARET ATWOOD What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams...
MARGARET ATWOOD There is something powerful in the whispering of obscenities, about those in power. There's somethin...
MARGARET ATWOOD I believe that everyone else my age is an adult whereas I am merely in disguise.
MARGARET ATWOOD How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness...
MARGARET ATWOOD The society in 'The Handmaid's Tale' is a throwback to the early Puritans whom I studied...
MARGARET ATWOOD You could tell 'The Handmaid's Tale' from a male point of view. People have mistakenly f...
MARGARET ATWOOD Glenn used to say the reason you can't really imagine yourself being dead was that as soon as you sa...
MARGARET ATWOOD You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t ne...
MARGARET ATWOOD But in the end, back she comes. There's no use resisting. She goes to him for amnesia, for oblivion....
MARGARET ATWOOD When you're unhinged, things make their way out of you that should be kept inside, and other things ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...
MARGARET ATWOOD It wasn't so easy though, ending the war. A war is a huge fire; the ashes from it drift far, and set...
MARGARET ATWOOD The young habitually mistake lust for love, they're infested with idealism of all kinds.
MARGARET ATWOOD I'm not senile," I snapped. "If I burn the house down it will be on purpose.
MARGARET ATWOOD She knows herself to be at the mercy of events, and she knows by now that events have no mercy.
MARGARET ATWOOD Why does the mind do such things? Turn on us, rend us, dig the claws in. If you get hungry enough, t...
MARGARET ATWOOD Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we're still alive. We wish to assert...
MARGARET ATWOOD Home is where the heart is, I thought now, gathering myself together in Betty's Luncheonette. I had ...
MARGARET ATWOOD Should is a futile word. It's about what didn't happen. It belongs in a parallel universe. It...
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