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"You're the only person in the world I want to talk to right now. You're the only sane person I know."

This made me feel proud, and strong, and good.

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You are my personal clown.

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when my dad told me I'd become a man in his eyes, sometime in my freshman year in college. I cried.

(#500 w00t)

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ok i just resurrected an old computer and found this old IM that I got years ago while I was asleep, from a crazy ex whom I had dumped a couple of weeks prior after sneakily discovering she was not on the pill as she had claimed (childish anyone??)

crazy ex: i'm [censored] right now and can't be held reso[opnsible for anything I say because i';m drunk and hig
crazy ex: i burned my lip on a joint how bad its that
crazy ex: whatefer you're never there when I [censored] need you anyways so lates
crazy ex: nevermind I take that back you used to always be there for me and I loved you for it but I understand that things are different and I'm sorry i hurt you and I just wish ik hadn't, but since I did I'm sorry and i just whish we could at least be some sort of friends again sometime, i think you're being [censored] childish about this but it's not my call, maybe you do desreve better than me and maybe I deserve someone better than you, thatn's just how it goes but I hope that we can at least han gout once in a while because I think we had some good times other than theamazing z sex which good lord jonny you [censored] me like no ther and I'll always love you for that



(emphasis mine)

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after I graduated school I was going to apply for the US Marine Corps officer candidate program to be a fighter pilot.

Along the way I needed to get 3 professor recommendations.

I was able to get one from the dean of my unit, he was the head professor too, he wrote the books on the subject.

He was an extremely straight forward guy, this man testified before congress after 9/11 regarding aviation security. He wrote me the best recommendation I think I could ever get and even pointed out I received an A+ in his class as a sophmore when the class was designed for grad students and senior undergrads.

I still have the letter to this day even though I didn't sign w/the military.

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My son got an 'invisible' pen for his birthday recently, and has been scribbling stuff on a pad, and then shining a UV light on it to read the message. I was checking through it the other day, and found 'Dad is awesome x2'.

That was pretty damn good.

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alright, I cant find a way to word this that doesnt come off like me being an ass....but at what age do you stop snooping through your kids personal stuff?

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My son got an 'invisible' pen for his birthday recently, and has been scribbling stuff on a pad, and then shining a UV light on it to read the message. I was checking through it the other day, and found 'Dad is awesome x2'.

That was pretty damn good.

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alright, I cant find a way to word this that doesnt come off like me being an ass....but at what age do you stop snooping through your kids personal stuff?

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lmao, awesome post

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I was in the middle of this drug deal with some movie producer (not to be named) and my wife who I had just met a few days ago was with us. He had just agreed to the deal and they were getting the money. My wife handed me a note that said, "You're so cool." Those three simple words.

craig

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Is your wife Patricia Arquette?

I hope you're enjoying Mexico.

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Various girls thanking me for convincing them not/talking them out of killing themselves (back in the early teenage years). Yeah I know, 99% of the time a girl says she is gonna kill herself, it's just a cry for attention and they aren't gonna do [censored] or cut the wrong places, but still felt good.

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A girl once told me, You make me feel so strong. I told her, Maybe I just let you be strong. She didn't expect the credit to be turned around and given back to her instead of slurped up greedily, I guess. Got a pretty good reaction out of her.

I grew up in a foster family. We took in all kinds of abused and emotionally distraught kids. From all that exposure, intimacy, and responsibility from a young age, I got really great with kids, kind of a pied piper but without so much gay dancing. But still it was very tough to establish trust as a male much bigger than they were with kids who had been both emotionally and literally abandoned by their fathers, and abused, often pretty violently, often sexually, by their fathers too. (Others had been abused by their mothers, there was plenty of that too.) There were plenty of times when they cried uncontrollably, and many found it very hard to trust anyone, and would bolt whenever they were afraid thinking god knows what was going to happen to them. (Actually, we usually knew the backstory and knew exactly what.)

Anyway, sometimes it took a lot of long nights of holding them while they cried for hours, but there were many small miracles along the way. A kid can be almost emotionally ruined and near unreachable at a very young age from the traumas their parents put them through, but I think it was a real lasting compliment when they made the transition from blocking out life and reacting against it to letting down their guard and letting it in and being a part of it, and began trusting me and realizing the entire world might not be such a hostile, terrifying place after all and they might actually have a friend in it and be able to love and be loved in return.