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Don't Think About the Heat Pump: Why Pushing Fear Away Backfires

She called me back on a Tuesday to tell me the noise I told her not to worry about had been keeping her up for six nights. Early fall, one of those weeks where you run the AC in the afternoon and the heat at four in the morning. Brick ranch on the edge of town, built in the seventies, added onto twice. Retired schoolteacher, lived there thirty years, knew every sound that house made. That was the whole problem, though I did not understand that yet. I had been out the week before on a capacitor. Straightforward call. While I was finishing up, she asked about a new tick coming off the indoor…

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