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Confessions of Forever Alone Women

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1. So many people think of relationships as being all about love, lust and sex. What about the completely ordinary, everyday things, like going for a walk? Grocery shopping? Out to dinner? Or making dinner!? Going on vacation? Going to a movie? Just simply spending the day together, hanging out, visiting a farmers market or going on a day trip somewhere new. Grabbing a coffee somewhere and sitting outside, people-watching while you chat. Meeting each other’s friends/family and getting to know them too. Having another opinion on decisions you may have to make. Not having to always take the trash out yourself lol. Finding a tv show you both like and binge-watching on cold winters nights while eating pizza. Knowing that someone is there when you come home from work. Learning and growing from issues you both may face in your relationship and overcoming them if the relationship is strong enough, or break up and meet someone new if it isn’t, and start all over again. Maybe having a family, if that’s your thing.

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What’s It Like To Be Addicted To Cigarettes

What’s It Like To Be Addicted To Cigarettes

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I’m 30 and started smoking when i was 12. By the time i was 15 I was a full fledged pack a day smoker. Over the years I have witnessed many people fall prey to the habit.

You start by smoking here and there, maybe you don’t inhale at first, maybe you just like to blow it out your nose or smoke it like a cigar. It’s only on certain occasions.

If you are fiddling with cigarettes, you likely have friends that are smoking, also. so you are hanging out, maybe having a few beers, and you see them smoking and decide to be social with them, and also have a cig, but alas, you have none. So you bum a few off a friend for the night. you kind of like it. it just feels good to have one with some drinks or just when you’re talking and laughing. Soon you do this every time you get together for a drink/movie/whatever. It’s not a big deal, it’s just once in a blue moon.

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What Is It Like To Have An Autistic Child?

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My daughter is nearly 19, she is the 5th of 5 children and if she had been first there would likely have not been more. She is time intensive and energy draining. She is not adaptive. She is at the higher end of the specturm although she has some very extreme deficits as well.

This past week she told me that she hates my guts, that she never gets enough attention, that is is unreasonable to only get 5 to 6 hours of my attention and conversation a day.

We could never get up and just decide to go to the zoo, because she doesn’t operate on spur of the moment. Everything has to be planned well in advance.

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What’s It Like To Be A Hikikimori (Hermit)?

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I was 16 when I dropped out of public school to finish up online. That is when my prolonged bouts of social isolation started. I had friends, but these friends were people I abused drugs with (to cope with our life circumstances), as they weren’t socially adapted like most people our age.

As time went on I ended up cutting off all contact with them and haven’t contacted them since age 18. I haven’t had a social outing in 5 years. It’s liberating but embarrassing at the same time to be saying that.

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Confessions Of A Former Mafia Boss

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Michael Franzese is an American former New York mobster and caporegime of the Colombo crime family, and son of former underboss Sonny Franzese. He was heavily involved in the gasoline tax rackets in the 1980s. At the height of his operation, federal authorities claim Franzese generated close to a billion dollars a year in a gas-tax scheme he masterminded. Since then, he has publicly renounced organized crime, created a foundation for helping youth, and became a motivational speaker.

What was the main appeal of joining the mob for you?

I joined to help my day get out of prison. plain and simple. the money and power came for me later on. once i got in, i wanted both.

What is the process of becoming a “Made Man” like?

Very intense. very solemn, very serious. I took an oath with a picture of a saint burning in my hands. My thumb was cut with a knife and blood dropped on the floor. The oath is never to violate the brotherhood of La Cosa Nostra.

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The Thoughts And Feelings Of A Nazi SS Guard As He Is About To Execute 23 People

Felix Landau was a member of the feared German SS. For much of the war he belonged to an Einsatzkommando, a mobile death squad charged with exterminating Jews, Romani gypsies, Polish intellectuals, and a number of other groups within Nazi-occupied territory. Landau operated throughout Poland and Ukraine, slaughtering his way from town to town.

His remarkable diary details his appalling crimes, often in graphic detail. This entry, from July 1941, records his actions in the city of Drohobych in western Ukraine.

The lack of emotion he feels during the killings is typical of SS officers who took part in mass executions.

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What’s It Like To Be An Obese Woman?

Most people will never understand what it’s really like for someone who carries extra weight around with them their whole lives. I am prepared to share the complete, brutal, admittedly terrible truth with anyone who will listen to me on this day. 

Allow me to answer: “What is life really like for the fat girl?”  We can begin with the most obvious…appearance. 

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What’s It Like To Be A Coal Miner?

I graduated from Virginia Tech with a BS in Mining Engineering and I’ve been coal mining ever since.

I get asked a lot if it is a 4 year degree – yes it is.

We have to study everything other engineers learn including thermodynamics, electrical theory, statics, dynamics, deforms.

Some coursework in my major included mine design, blasting, ventilation, geophysics, and engineering economics.

Many people ask if I have to crawl around all day long – nope! I drive an F-150 underground.

Speed limit is 25, but I’ve never gotten pulled over down there (all the trucks have governor chips set to 25).

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What Is It Like To Be In Love?

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Only once in your life, I truly believe, you find someone who can completely turn your world around.

You tell them things that you’ve never shared with another soul and they absorb everything you say and actually want to hear more.

You share hopes for the future, dreams that will never come true, goals that were never achieved and the many disappointments life has thrown at you.

When something wonderful happens, you can’t wait to tell them about it, knowing they will share in your excitement.

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What’s It Like To Have Your Film Flop At The Box Office?

When you work “above the line” on a movie (writer, director, actor, producer, etc.) watching it flop at the box office is devastating. I had such an experience during the opening weekend of Conan the Barbarian 3D.

A movie’s opening day is analogous to a political election night. Although I’ve never worked in politics, I remember having similar feelings of disappointment and disillusionment when my candidate lost a presidential bid, so I imagine that working as a speechwriter or a fundraiser for the losing campaign would feel about the same as working on an unsuccessful film.

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