Spwan has pneumonia and because there is nothing really interesting about that

Every five years:
1970: While I was incubating my mother was eating canned apple rings and french bread and my dad was wondering if he could do it.
1975: I was four years old and my parents were splitting up. I got a parakeet I wanted to name big bird but they talked me out of it [...]

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8

Mud puddles and race cars. Kung-fu hide and seek. Running until you taste like a salt lick when your mother kisses you. Laughing with your friends and feeling special for today. Waking up to presents and special breakfasts. Phone calls, cards and presents. You can’t believe your mom actually got it for you. The people [...]

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In case you were wondering

About the existence of god…

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Thievery continues

completely cribbed,some answers and all.

TECHNOLOGY
Q. What is your wallpaper on your computer? Butterflies, a photo I took at the NHM in NYC
Q. How many televisions you have in your house? 1 in the living room. One in the basement,not used.
BIOLOGY
Q. Are you right-handed or left-handed? right cause they made me be right in kindergarten to [...]

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Too late

A friend recently lost her Dad. Not in the euphemism that he is dead, although that is true also now, but she lost him. Well, maybe more accurately, he lost her and her sisters when he decided to drink and ignore them. I feel such a connection to that because I have also misplaced my [...]

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grrrrrr

I think it is sneaky when people you are close to, whether you want to be or not, are alternatingly kind and open and then judgemental and weird. Just like Pat Benatar says, “just when you think you’ve got it down, your heart securely tied and bound, they whisper, promises….” I don’t mean it in [...]

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Dear old looking knees

Dear old looking knees,
I am not going to beat around the bush–you look like shit in a sundress. I know the legs were never a strong point but now the old and saggy knees really cap off the “hey…I am almost 40 look!” and it is not appealing. To anyone, despite what you may think. [...]

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Young@Heart sing ‘Schizophrenia’ by Sonic Youth
amazing

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Young@Heart sing ‘Fix You’ by Coldplay
lovely

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Good manners bear

Spawn was sweaty and dirty and wrestled like a pig in mud playing keep away or tag or kick ball or some combination there of with the other bigger boys at the party. At one point, a friend who tends to be very physical and injury people and doesn’t feel the need or desire to [...]

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