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Great story, thanks for sharing it! You go girl!

I don't know, maybe pessimistic is the wrong word... even though that's one of the words the author used to describe his own book. Sometimes pessimism just vibes so nicely with what I'm already feeling in a way that allows whatever wisdom is inherent in the statement to get past the defenses. I full...

My fav. is "Remember it is a natural tendency to be dark and self-destructive. The trick is to do it well—very well." I'm not sure what the "doing it very well" means, I suppose it amounts to not denying the beast inside, to finding the middle ground between the decent and evil s...

Seems like I've made these introductions thousands of times... nothing ever changes. I've read some of the stories on here that make my problems seem trivial, though sometimes I wish I had something in my life I could point to and say, "that's it! That's the problem!" but there is nothing....