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jr rogers's avatar

Quitting is underrated.

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Lee Judge's avatar

I totally agre...

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Elaine the Mean Old Feminist's avatar

I have an older brother who's a free market will solve everything and don't touch my fuckin guns type of dude.

And I had another older brother who committed suicide with a gun in 2016. Gun nut brother was who found him afterward.

Apparently the sight of your brother with his brains blown out the back of his head isn't sufficiently affecting to make you rethink your position on guns, at least not if you're a free market anti gubmint type.

Mine is, I'm not planning to kill anybody or hunt anything so I have no reason for owning one and I'd just as soon not have them around me.

Also, your anecdote about the motorbike and the schwinn made me blow my morning tea out my nose. 😜

Happy Monday!

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Lee Judge's avatar

Sorry to hear about your family tragedy, I don't know how people ever get over something like that and I suspect they don't. But happy to hear I made liquid shoot out your nose, it's the highest compliment a writer can receive. My brother got pretty scratched up by the blackberry thorns and once we determined he was pretty much ok other than that, we laughed our asses off. Or maybe it was the other way around.

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Jeff's avatar

I'm not seeing much Manhattan in that Manhattan glass. Maybe you accidentally sipped it all waiting for the perfect moment to take the shot?

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Lee Judge's avatar

In my experience, Manhattans have a pretty short life span.

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