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  This past February, I spoke at an email marketing event in Denmark. The event was in Hans Christian Andersen’s hometown of Odense, a 90-minute train ride from Copenhagen. (Side note: I was bad at the train. Never could find my assigned seat.) The host hotel was around the corner from Hans’s childhood home: You could follow the writer’s size 13 footprints (size 47, in Euro sizing) straight up to the door of the house where he was born in 1805. That’s it above ☝️. Even if you don’t know Hans Christian Andersen, you know his work. He wrote The Princess and the Pea, Thumbelina, The Little Mermaid, The Emperor’s New Clothes, The Ugly Duckling, and The Snow Queen… which 171 years later would be adapted by Disney into Frozen and Frozen 2 and (someday, I expect) Frozen 47. The point is: If “Let It Go” has ever played on loop in your minivan, you have Hans Christian