| Enhancing Vulnerability To Master Perfectionism |
| One of the ways a person must advance past perfectionism is to deal with and gradually become more and more vulnerable. Every go... |
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| Fitting An Education Into A Busy Lifestyle |
| Fitting an education into a busy lifestyle
Many people have aspirations to get an education for many reasons. Better jobs, m... |
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| Five Ways To Take A Vacation Without Taking A Vacation |
| Last month Along The Purpose Path was about how to identify and stop the energy drains that leave you feeling exhausted and out ... |
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| Five Ways to Stay Positive in a Negative World |
| In view of the increasing negative events happening around the world here are five things you can do to help you stay positive.
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| Five Ways to Sharpen Your Sense of Humor and Improve Your Relationships |
| Humor has long been considered one of the most effective tools to judge the quality of any relationship. If there is laughter pr... |
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| Footprints and Monuments - Slow Down |
| Every month I usually sit down and write an article around the topics of leadership, teamwork, vision, or self-improvement. Howe... |
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| Five Tired, Worn Out Speaking Cliches |
| The subject of public speaking is riddled with tired, worn out cliches we ought to throw out. Here are a few to let go of:
1... |
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| For Old Time's Sake |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of August 19, 2002
I am currently going through a divorce, and we've been negotiating t... |
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| Five Surprisingly Hip Politicial Ideas From Plato |
| Don't you love politics?
Me, neither. But I do like thinking about politics. And wouldn't you know it? Just when you think y... |
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| Five Steps to Vocational Passion: A Disciplined Plan for Major Mid-life Changes |
| There’s a famous song lyric that asks: “Is that all there is?” Every seven seconds, an American turns 50 years old. So there’s a... |
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| Five Simple Ways to Organize Your Closet Today |
| Do you have an overstuffed, bulging closet (or two) full of clothes, and yet wear the same three or four outfits repeatedly? Do ... |
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| From The WorkWise Collection: Job Hunting in the New Economy |
| To succeed in today’s global marketplace, companies must hire the best and the brightest. Having talented employees can make the... |
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| Five Great Ideas From Aristotle |
| It was Socrates who said that the purpose of philosophy is to help each of us become “an excellent human”. That seems like a res... |
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| Following Through |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of March 24, 2003
My final divorce papers sit in front of me waiting for my signature. ... |
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| Fitness Focus: Overcoming Obstacles |
| If you’re like me, the quest to be in shape, manage weight and overall well-being, at times, feels overwhelming. And, as if the ... |
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| First Aid For The Soul |
| A Model of the dysfunctional, unconscious human psyche.
A way through, from confusion to consciousness.
Introduction
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| Find Shortcuts To Happiness |
| If someone said you could feel inner peace and joy by just deciding to do it, would you believe them? Well, we’re telling you ju... |
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| Five Ways to Expand Your Comfort Zone |
| Expanding your comfort zone isn't quite the same as building self-confidence. However, the two do fit together rather nicely. Th... |
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| Free Will To The Rescue |
| Today's society and your private world are the results of free will. We have arrived here today through intention, ignorance or ... |
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| Game-Set-Match |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of July 21, 2003
I don't know whether to call it jealousy or insecurity. My husband and... |
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| Gaining Muscle Mass |
| This article will discuss how to gain weight naturally muscle building. Gaining weight naturally is about muscle building and us... |
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| Full Steam Ahead, Just Don't Go Off Half Cocked! |
| Do you do things that you don't want to do? Do you not do things that you do want to do? Do you find every reason in the book to... |
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| Full Disclosure |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of April 21, 2003
I hope you can talk me out of this bad feeling. I watched the Michael... |
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| From The WorkWise Collection: Transform Your Fears into Positive Power |
| Fear is a double-edged sword. It can hold you back or drive you forward. When you feel unnecessarily immobilized by fear, use th... |
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| Five Principals for Prosperity |
| Many years ago, forty to be exact, I started my own business at the tender age of nineteen. The street markets in and around Man... |
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| Encouraging Blossoms of Achievement |
| The tiny dogwood sapling was only a twig when my mother planted it years ago. At age four, with a red wagon and bucket, I was ha... |
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| Entrepreneurs: Take Action Over Inspiration Every Time! |
| "Accept the challenges so that you may feel the exhilaration of victory!" General George S. Patton
When choosing a senior qu... |
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| Enjoy the Magic of Prosperity |
| There is an art and a science to prosperity. The art is pl... |
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| Ever Find Yourself Struggling to Express Your Thoughts and Feelings? |
| It can be challenging to find the right words to express what we really want to say. We often think that good communication is o... |
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| Every Passing Minute Is A Chance To Turn It All Around |
| Every passing minute.
When I first heard this line, in the movie Vanilla Sky, it struck a powerful chord in me. Sure, it’s a... |
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| Evangelical Skepticism: Pursuing Your Right To Be Wrong |
| Michael Shermer speaks with the energy and passion of an evangelist, so it's not too surprising to learn that he used to be one.... |
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| Eureka! I’ve Found It! |
| OK, so it wasn’t quite that big of a deal. But I did find the “T” that mysteriously escaped from the word “not” in one of my art... |
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| Ethics in Speaking: A Practical Point of View |
| Often managers have to deliver presentations with unpleasant content. The vice president has to announce that there is a hiring ... |
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| Essential Ingredient |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of September 15, 2003
I have a couple of questions for you. If a person no longer feels... |
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| Ernesto Apomayta offers Explanation of Mediums, Paints, & Techniques Used by Artists |
| Special Types of Mediums
Rice paper is a very delicate medium with lots of natural imperfections that lend beauty and charac... |
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| Ever Feel Like Your Elevator Is Stuck Between Floors? |
| What do you do when you make a big mistake? When you fail? When you suffer defeat? When everything just goes wrong? When serious... |
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| Flight Delay |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 6, 2003
It took me eight years after my husband died to try a relationship, ... |
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| Ending Relationships Gracefully |
| In my counseling practice, I often hear the question, “How do I end a relationship without hurting someone’s feelings?” Whether ... |
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| Examination Strategies |
| 1) Prepare a realistic time-table for your study preparation. Take into account that you may still have to go back for remedials... |
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| Encourage Personality Testing |
| I was asked the other day : "Kate, is personality testing novelty, frivolity, or common sense?"
The answer is: It depends on... |
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| Empty Nest Syndrome |
| Paula’s last child had just gone off to college and Paula was struggling with a deep inner emptiness. While she knew this day wa... |
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| Emotional Dependency or Emotional Responsibility |
| Emotional dependency means getting one’s good feelings from outside oneself. It means needing to get filled from outside rather ... |
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| Embracing Your Wildness |
| As small children, we were all wild. Not unlike the wolf pup in the den, we ran when we felt like it, sniffed or tasted things t... |
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| Evil, Hostile Grumpy Listeners? Think Again |
| I hated Kyle Sisk*. A notorious bully, Kyle punctuated my grade school years with misery. He would tease me about my weight, pur... |
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| Frustration, Isolation, Overwhelm |
| Whether you’ve been in business for yourself for a day or a decade, you remember that sweet feeling of freedom when you first th... |
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| Embrace Change |
| We all have a unique way of communicating our story, a way that reflects our life experience. The photographer uses a camera, th... |
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| Five Tips for EASY WEIGHT LOSS! |
| Whoever told you that weight loss was difficult never read this article!
Weight loss is a hot topic among people today, espe... |
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| Finding Your Inner Flame: Finding Passion Series - 3 of 3 |
| Why is it that some goals have a fire and a passion behind them that creates an almost self-propelled drive towards completion, ... |
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| Flash I Thought I Saw A Puddy Cat |
| Have you ever had one of those flashes of inspiration? Hav... |
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| Enhancing Life for a Lifetime |
| Do you often feel lonely, anxious, or even depressed? Is a mid-life or quarter-life crisis threatening your confidence, self-est... |
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| Finders Keepers |
| Do you remember your younger years when you and your friends played all sorts of fun games all day long? I'm sure you do. If the... |
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| Falling up the Stairs |
| There have been a lot of really good movies made over the last several years. There are a lot of bad ones too. And while I try t... |
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| Extracting the Most from Your Time |
| As we all know time is supposed to be the most precious resource in business. To help you be the most productive person you can ... |
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| Failure is Only Feedback |
| Does the thought of failure send a cold shiver down your spine? Failure is the thing most of us spend the greatest amount of ene... |
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| Extraordinary People ... in Mediocre Times |
| My grandfather used to speak of the days when people drove the world. It was a time when people were proud to contribute and mov... |
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| Finding Yourself: Finding Passion Series - 1 of 3 |
| We have been told that the things we don't like in our children are the same things we don't like in ourselves. We are told that... |
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| Exploring Beneath The Surface |
| Unwanted feelings and thoughts are rich territory to dive beneath the surface for fresh insights that open the heart. Imagine fo... |
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| Food for thought. The Call or Nor To Call Waltz |
| When something in your relationship is repetitive and your reaction to that repetition has not served to change it, then you nee... |
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| Expand Your Time |
| In our time-crazed society, lots of time is what most of us don’t have. Yet, all of us would like to have more time. So what can... |
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| Exceptions To The Rule |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of March 29, 2004
Yesterday I turned 48, and she just turned 21. Uh-oh, I can hear the ... |
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| Finding Peace A Taste of Mindfulness |
| When we are ill and don’t know it, we are in a state of ignorance or delusion. We don’t view ourselves as sick, so we don’t beli... |
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| Feelings and Attitudes |
| Are feelings and attitudes the same thing or different? Does one cause the other to happen? Which one has more power over how we... |
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| Finding A Little Adventure |
| I have had more than my share of exciting times and I'm grateful for every one of them.
There was the time the bear came int... |
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| False Prophets |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of May 12, 2003
Of all the relationship advice columns, I like and respect yours most b... |
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| Finding Inspiration to Realise Your Dreams and Ambitions |
| "Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that ... |
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| Fight Terror, With Education |
| A War on Terrorism? Conventional war being brought on an unconventional enemy is ineffective out of date. Building these countri... |
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| Fighting Terrorism With Enchantment |
| Many of you may look at my title and wonder if I have 'lost my marbles.' Let me explain. First let me quote from a wonderful art... |
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| Fickle Fates |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of April 19, 2004
I am currently involved in a wonderful year-long relationship with a ... |
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| Feng Shui Your Love Pad |
| What began centuries ago in China as a way of interpreting the natural world to create more efficient agricultural systems and e... |
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| Feng Shui Horoscopes |
| A great tool to help you find out more about yourself.
Chinese feng shui horoscope is based on twelve animals which represen... |
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| Figure Out the Pebble in Your Shoe |
| "By asking for the impossible, we obtain the best possible." ~ Italian saying
If you are serious about achieving a more mean... |
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| Feeling Grouchy? Here's What to Do |
| I woke up this morning feeling sour.
No. That's an understatement. My throat was tight. My head was foggy. I felt like weari... |
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| the Hint of a Rainbow to...... |
| The grey sky of morning contained an ominous quality. The clouds were so thick they were almost tangible. Then I saw it. Faintly... |
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| Floating In Mindfulness: Dealing With Disappointment |
| Feeling disappointed? It's time to float.
The time-honored approach to disappointment generally involves a fair amount of wa... |
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| Feeling Self-Conscious? 6 Tips to Turn it Around Fast! |
| When you feel self-conscious it means you are putting too much attention on your self, too much focus on what you are doing and ... |
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| From The WorkWise Collection: Ten Ways to Win the Job Search Mind Game |
| Are you one of the thousands of job seekers who question their sanity, marketability, and capacity to make smart decisions-just ... |
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| From Failure To Victory; The Cat's Out Of The Bag! |
| Did you ever think that all of the great heroes we read about may not have been particularly great men in and of themselves? The... |
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| Finding Direction: Finding Passion Series - 2 of 3 |
| In order to find the right direction for ourselves, we have to do some soul searching. What is it I want to accomplish? Why? Wha... |
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| From Bumbling Bosses to Cranky Co-Workers: How to Overcome What Makes You Hate Your Job |
| I’ll be the first to admit that I hated my job. It took many years for me to come to this realization since I kept accepting pro... |
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| Feng Shui with Style Working with Your Element Type |
| When you begin to study feng shui, you quickly realize the importance of the qualities and characteristics of the five feng shui... |
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| Freudian Slip |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 17, 2003
My dilemma is this. I've been going out with my boyfriend for five... |
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| Focal Point Of Success |
| Fortune will flow into your hands like a river flow into the sea if only you can invest a high percent of your time on a high va... |
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| FREE The Ultimate Secrets Newsletter Transforms Your Personal and Business Life Instantly! |
| Affirmation technique has been used by many successful people for centuries. It has helped many ordinary people achieved extraor... |
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| Freedom- or Burden of Choice? |
| Everyday decisions have become increasingly complex due to the overwhelming abundance of choice with which we are presented. A t... |
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| Freedom for All; Is it Possible? |
| Freedom for all species and people, and freedom of stress; is it possible? Could the Internet be a tool to getting there?
Fr... |
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| Four Steps To Make Your Day Dynamic! |
| There are two ways to start your day. The first is to dive in; tackling whatever is in front of you. You might check your emails... |
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| Four steps to attracting more good luck |
| The Luck Factor rips apart the notion that luck is something that just happens. Dr. Wiseman reports on over three years of scien... |
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| Four Powerful Pathways Into The Light And Sound Of Oness |
| The easiest, most exciting adventure in consciousness follows the lamplit guidance of the still, small voice in each of us. In t... |
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| Four Common Rapport Building Mistakes and How to Fix Them |
| 1. Pretending You Are Interested When You Are Not
Do yourself a favor and be honest with yourself and the people you spend t... |
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| Fashionably Late |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of January 6, 2003
What can a couple say and do when they have been late in getting wed... |
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| False Start |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of July 7, 2003.
I was married three months ago, and I think I may have married the wro... |
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| Faux Feelings |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of November 10, 2003
I'm a male, 28, in a happy relationship for a year. None of us is ... |
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| Fearing the Future ... I am what I fear! |
| When we were children, we were fearless. We would stick our hands in the fire, chew on the beetle bugs, and eat that dirt. But, ... |
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| FEAR Don’t Let it Control You! |
| Fear. What is it? Can you touch it? Can you hold it? Can you show it to another person? I can almost hear you from where I am si... |
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| F-E-A-R in the Job Search! |
| Fear in starting a job search is a four letter word! Like any other four letter word, the word itself can create more fear, and ... |
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| Fear the Future? Don't. |
| In one sense there are three parts of our lives. Past, present and future. How each of these is viewed has huge consequences.
... |
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| Fairies and Mental Health |
| Schizophrenics hallucinate alternate realities. People who claim to have been abducted by aliens are accused of having Fantasy P... |
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| Friends? |
| Direct Answers - Column for the week of October 18, 2004
I met my friend when we were in graduate school, and we enjoyed han... |
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| For Speaking Ease, Forgive Your Younger Self |
| I love the Disney movie The Kid with Bruce Willis. In it he plays a stressed-out, high-power image consultant. He wears expensiv... |
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| Fear of Intimacy |
| Emotional intimacy is one of the most wonderful experiences we ever have. Nothing else really comes close to the experience of s... |
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