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It felt like a miracle, even if it was just life happening.
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Love falls on us like sunlight on a winter day
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[REPOST] Young and Dumb in New Orleans
What I didn’t count on was the creeping, progressive weirdness as the days went on.
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Numbskull 4
“It’ll all be okay,” my wife promises, loving me, loving me, loving me.
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Neuro-programming, toe yoga, kindness, and how reality comes from the barrel of a gun
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