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Despite being drafted out of high school, however, Abbott decided instead to attend the University of Michigan, where he led the Wolverines’ baseball program to two Big Ten Conference championships and became the first baseball pitcher to earn the James E. Natalie du Toit would have been a perfect candidate for Abbott’s mentoring.

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He is 25 years older, and he was my mentor early in my career. By then I was insistent that I wanted to run the business alone, and I rented a conference room for a meeting away from our office. My best friend and neighbor opened a boutique with me in 2002, and for most of the nine years we owned it, it was fabulous.

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