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Many not making New Year’s resolutions

40 percent eschew the yearly tradition

This year, Chifuku Kuwahara, an aspiring artist from Roxbury, is making a New Year’s resolution he knows he’s going to keep: He’s vowing to make no resolutions.

“There’s this cultural idea that you have to come up with something,” he said, “but pressuring yourself on New Year’s Eve is the wrong way to do it.”

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I'm in AA. My resolution for 2013, as for the past 20 years, is to stay sober.