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Paint And Suffering and When The Going Gets Tufted

Some people are just irritating. It doesn’t necessarily have anything to do with their ovaries.

I’m doing some work on my landlady’s house. She just CANNOT figure out what color to paint it. Now, when a man paints his house, he goes to Home Depot, grabs a few cans of paint, and starts right in. Simple. Git ‘er done. Not so with a woman. She’ll agonize endlessly over a bunch of paint chips. […]

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Ambivalence Actually and Paradise Flossed

Having regular sex with you does not give another person the right to rake through your diary like it’s the $1 bin at Goodwill.

My boyfriend of two years read my diary and found out that I had expressed feelings for another guy while we were together. I never acted on them (and I wouldn’t have), and I probably shouldn’t have told the guy I liked him. But my boyfriend shouldn’t have been reading my diary! He broke up […]

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