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You're no fun at all.

In what way can you be prepared when you don't know if, when, who, how, or any other detail of a potential threat to your safety or well-being? The same way as always: be vigilant and aware. Is it worth worrying about? No. Worrying never helped anything.

I'll echo what he said. My relationships have always been a moving target. Life is dynamic. Keeping the question.

The words come hard to me, both to speak and to hear. I'd rather have a hug. Words deceive more easily.

Unless it's pretty cold, my own hide is plenty warm. If it takes more'n two blankets, flannel sleeping pants and a long-sleeve t-shirt.

This may be my first public critique of your work. Your pace has slowed a lot since your earlier work, and you've really brought up the characters and environment better, as a result. Your characters are really enjoyable and believable. Gibby's really cute, and I love the relationship he has with his dad. Tying your fingers helped. You have a strong plot line, and paint the scene well for the reader. It's easy to picture. More. (please)

I probably still have several of those stuck to my small intestine from when I was a kid. From Wikipedia: " Furthermore, Peeps are insoluble in acetone, water, diluted sulfuric acid, and sodium hydroxide."

Yes. (And to answer my earlier question, I've been goosed by a Great Pyrenees with a very cold wet nose when in the midst. It was... surprising.) Has anybody ever stumbled upon something you should have put away better?

Shower first, then put on something clean, unless I'm going to bed. Clean sheets, clean him, clean me, and a quilt on a cool night. Do your pets watch you having sex? Do they try to get involved?

Recycled Easter jokes: What do you call a row of bunnies hopping backward? A receding hare line. How do you catch a unique rabbit? You 'neak up on it. How do you catch a tame rabbit? Tame way, you 'neak up on it. What's invisible and smells like carrots? Bunny farts.

Bake a large chicken breast smeared with olive oil, fresh rosemary, garlic, and salt. Throw together a salad of butter lettuce, cucumber, tomato, green onion, red bell pepper w/ vinaigrette. In 30 minutes, I can pull it together and make a pitcher of kamikazes, if you bring the liquor. Same question, and somebody get Matt an apron. It's time he learned to cook for his boy.

Benji, you're on the right path, no matter where it's taken you, and no matter where it leads. We're here for a purpose. We have free will for a purpose. We have the ability to reflect on our lives for a purpose. There's something to be learned here. I'm convinced that we live our lives in such a way as to bring us to exactly where we need to be. Not where we want to be, but where we need to be. High school classmates are just people that you used to know. You've been outed to them? In what way does that change who you are and what you've done? I sometimes wish I'd had a family, or done this or that. But every decision made was made in good faith, with the best information available at the time, and knowing what I did then, I'd make the same decisions again. Knowing that, there's no room for regret. And a lot to take pride and pleasure in. One foot in front of the other.

"Mikhail the Dancing Dog, known to his friends as Buddy" If you cook, what's your favorite thing to cook, and why?

Glad of it.

A tool, a drawknife. It was my granddad's. Not just belonged to him - he was a blacksmith. It's gone now. How much credit cards do you carry with you?

uh huh

You underestimate yourself, ya fuzzy purple sock-wearing animal, you. back atcha And to everybody, please talk to someone when you're down. In this thread, in a PM to someone you trust, an email, whatever it takes. Just reach out for help. Don't suffer in silence and solitude. Keep trying until someone hears you.

NO same question

Khartoum Camel? Kashmir Canary? Oh! Oh! Oh! Kent Carp?

The smartest man I ever knew had an 8th grade education. At 88, he had just finished designing his 5th generation hydroelectric generator, and was beginning to machine the parts. He was going to generate 4 MW from a mountain stream, and start selling the power in a remote mountain valley. Someone once started boasting in front of Charlie about her father, who "taught industrial arts" at a community college, when Charlie stated, "I always tried not to let my lack of schooling interfere with my education." Your education took a new turn, and somebody without an imagination failed to recognize its worth. Your merit is not the sum of your credentials. You're simply beyond his ken. HIS horizons need to be broadened.

Think about life together. Are you going to be soothing his insecurities all the time? He could have just asked, but an answer isn't as convincing as investigating, yourself. Besides, how would he know you're not just lying to cover it up? I'd give honesty and soul-baring one good try. If things don't get better damn fast, they'll prolly get worse. How much are you willing to invest in this relationship? IS he your "one?" Are you his?

the mountains. fresh water or salt water?

Leave the room before I bring him down worse. innie or outie?

not of the moment, but sometimes for the moment http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9C5WncqIv98

9 fer me, Bubba. Gods, how embarrassing.