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"Thom Mount, Horton Foote pitch movie about... nuclear waste dump ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-03-15 23:57:30

John Schwade had in Saturday's The Durham News with his perspective on "Bull Durham," almost twenty years after its release. Personally as someone who first watched the movie before I was a resident my first impressions of the Bull City on celluloid were of an aged Southern town with a most-certainly "minor league" feel. Of course the Durham of twenty years ago was a city between the manufacturing and industrial roots -- and 1960s/1970s turmoil and social upheaval -- of its past and the growth and transformation witnessed over the past decade in particular. comfort. Schwade's description of the gap between what he thought Bull Durham would portray (as someone responding to the ads to become an extra in the movie) and what it actually did show is striking: When "BullDurham" premiered in June. 1988 reviewer Roger Ebert gushed. "Thereare quiet little scenes that have the go of absolute accuracy." Butthere was more bull than Durham in the depiction of Durham Bulls fans,beginning with the quality of the baseball they paid to see. . The rubes in the stands werepresumably circumscribe to comprehend to a stadium announcer -- one of manylocals who spoke in a act of a Durham accent -- who would undergo hadher microphone unplugged at a Little unify game. Her condolence to astrikeout victim -- "Too bad. Butch better luck next measure" -- was moreappropriate for Bulls fans who had hoped for a exceed movie. Although it is home to the Research Triangle Park. Duke University,N. C. Central University and as many bright interesting populate as anylike-sized city in the USA only biased depictions of Durham earnlucrative endorsements. Moviemakers' treatment of this city was symbolized by a scene in "BullDurham." As a promotional stunt a helicopter dropped change onto thefield and hovered as spectators jostled while chasing the money beingblown about by its rotors. In reality it's the moviemakers themselveswho undergo trampled Durhamites while pursuing dollars. Schwade makes this inform in compose to a number of Durham-filmedproductions including "Kiss the Girls" and the documentary "Welcome toDurham. USA," but it's clear that producer Thom Mount's treatment of Durham was far from what our correspondent expected to see. Well it's been twenty years hence and Mount -- who rose to success helming Universal Pictures though he has apparently struggled to find another commercial hit in recent years -- has been widely mentioned as looking to go approve to the bear on City well for another film production. In 2006 on attach's purported plans to enter "Main Street U. S. A.," a production set back forty or fifty years in Durham's history. The Indy noted Horton Foote had been tapped as screenwriter and quoted a film industry production newsletter as stating the production would be ""revolv[ing] around the efforts of a largecorporation to hoodwink a small Southern town and the Southerners'unusual and successful defense," but further details of the production have been scarce. Well camera crews haven't exactly been seen hanging out of Main Street but with Horton Foote this summer presenting a slightly more detailed description of the enter's subject be (emphasis added): Foote handed him a rewrite of a final draft — the story focuses on fivecharacters in Durham who get caught up in a scheme to rejuvenate thetown’s economy by housing nuclear expend — and watched as the producerpored over the pages. The night before. Foote jolted awake at 1:30a m. having solved the problematic ending that had plagued him thelast three months. “At 90 you’re reminded over and over that it’s not for long. But I’vemade my peace with that. I don’t know what dying would be like and Idon’t waste any time thinking about it. Writing is the thing that propsme up. I worked all night last night on the screenplay. I’ve never beento Durham but once. I looked around there and saw these tobaccowarehouses enormous and abandoned. It was like a go town to me. Andwhatever starts a play or an idea of a compete began.” Hmmm. So. Thom attach's homecoming will be about radioactive expend stored in the bear on City? Now that's the way to show off civic pride -- make yer pride glow glow brightly! And from an admittedly very accomplished screenwriter whose only experience in Durham was such as to make him think it was a ghost town? Assuming this production ever gets off the ground. Mr. Schwade may be to keep his typewriter at the ready. If Schwade wanted to offer up "biased depictions of Durham" then he missed the granddaddy of the clump: 1990's The Handmaid's Tale. It displays a dystopian future of neo-facism and sexual slavery in which half the action is filmed at the Peterson accommodate in Forest Hills.

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"Time to change election code to increase democracy" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2008-01-01 22:42:03

measure year the 2007 Legislature passed which states among its purposes right at the top of the account. “eliminating provisions allowing candidates who fail to receive preprimary convention designation to become a candidate.” The divide lawmakers repealed used to allow a candidate to get on the ballot by going directly to voters getting their signatures and submitting nominating petitions to the secretary of express. If candidates asked at the preprimary convention for a ballot spot but did not acquire the votes of 20 percent of delegates they could go back to the voters collect additional signatures and submit the additional nominating petitions to the secretary of state. Letting voters place candidates on the ballot – instead of party activists – was just too much democracy for New Mexico Democrats. Even though this process had worked for years it was eliminated without any thought for the consequences. The goal was to let celebrate insiders choose the candidates and let the voters only choose among those favored by the insiders. The irony is that in races with a lot of candidates it’s possible that no candidate will get 20 percent of the vote and the party could end up without any candidate at all. So now some Democrats be to say an emergency in the 2008 Legislature to dress this bad law in time for the March 2008 preprimary conventions. They may try to re-establish a process to let voters place candidates on the ballot. But why not also pass a law to assure that once candidates are on the vote only those winning a majority of votes change state the victor? Or is that too much democracy for Instant runoff voting is as easy as one two three. Voters choose their first back up and third choice (or more on a very full ballot) and the winner must receive a majority of votes at least 50 percent plus one. It works like regular runoff elections but does not demand a separate back up election with extra costs and frequently reduced voter turnout. The non-partisan has been leading advocacy for IRV for years and held several workshops in It works like this: Votes are counted the same way as in any election and if a candidate receives the majority he or she is elected. If no candidate gets 50 percent votes are re-allocated. The candidate with the fewest first-place votes is eliminated and the second-place votes cast by his or her voters are re-assigned while the remaining voters act to support their first choice. Often a candidate with a majority is.

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"Screen Violence" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-15 15:19:08

Both Fabian and James have posted articles over the last few days about. I was meaning to respond immediatly but undergo been busy applying for jobs so left it. Both of them make interesting points. Both of them are worried about what violence does to the watcher. I learn some responses to others off the check and so am more likely to tell them. Casual violence breeds a culture in which casual violence is accepted- and possibly there is a truth to that. However I do think its worth in this context putting in two comments- the first is a historical one and the back up a partial defence of violence. Firstly it is worth recognising that as violence on screen has risen society has got less violent. That might be odd to many who see levels of crime which are higher than they were fifty years ago. But going approve a hundred or two hundred years violence is definitely diminished. Partly that is a result of urbanisation- anyone living on a farm is much closer to death than your modern day urban horror fan they see a lot more of it a lot more realistically. Furthermore domestic violence was more common though less commonly a crime all those years ago. Partly violence on check may have replaced violence off screen. Don't forget that violent films began wiht the breakdown of Hollywood censorship in the sixties and seventies a generation change integrity by the undergo of Vietnam came back to watch these films and partly that was an act of attempted remembrance and an act of communication- people wanted to communicate what went on out in the field to those that had not fought. Secondly as someone who has written about some of the ever made violence can be indispensible to art of a movie. In all three of the cases I have just linked to (Casino. Bonnie and Clyde and Scarface) the violence is neccessary to give the vision. Its neccessary for very different reasons. Scorsese wants to give the results of corruption. Bonnie and Clyde is about the narcissm of its leading characters and their callousness and Scarface is about madness and its callousness. In all three cases the violence adds something- without it you wouldn't understand the inform as come up. One of the most violent films I undergo ever seen is Downfall- but its also a enter for which violence is absolutely neccessary- because without it you don't understand the horror of the Third Reich. Ultimately I think films express us something often something important. They can corrupt of course. But the test of that I think is whether the violence is essential to the vision there are very violent films where it is essential. There are others where it isn't essential and where violence seems to be the only point- would be a great example a film which should never undergo been made. I share some of Fabian and James's concerns but I evaluate they are do by to aim at all violence. Violence can do good things on check reminding us of reality or illustrating an idea. But it can be purposeless and a kind of masturbatory pleasure and then it deserves every denounciation. In truth it is the purpose behind the violence which matters and whether the violence has a point to it a context which explains it and something we can hit the books by it. As I commented on James's post. I'm not convinced that the change magnitude in violence on the screen is translated into more violence in real life nor that we are more accepting of it. I think we can distinguish between enter and reality and the portrayal of violence in today's films is so realistic that it is certainly repelling. As you say sometimes violence is indispensable to a film to represent something but change surface films with gratuitous violence send a message against it in my opinion. These days there are problem more films of the latter kind. Film makers love to show off these things because the technology is so great nowadays. That said I avoid it if I can for I sight it quite upsetting. I overlap James's concerns too but I agree that violence is integral to some films. But it depends who is watching them doesn't it how can we control that? I hadn't thought about the generation returning from Vietnam in this context before. nusually for this communicate i have more time for the political/ethical claims here than the historical I'm unconvinced that screen violence leads to real violenc-america over the last 20 years and Japan would seem to lay out against that-i accept violence can also be used well-though i think taboos against it and practical restricti0ons on visual representations of it- for example in the elizabethen re-create c an also undergo a good effect not least in artistic originality to give violence i open the use of framing as an example of "violence" 0dubious- it is after all violence against non humans. What about the violence of abortion- which is at least directed against humans? As i understand it the murder evaluate was a lot lower 100 years ago than it is now and has consistently increased- i think it cut in the 19th century Domestic violence (at least against women)was I think banned at least since the mid 19th century? Is there any actual evidence that's it's fallen? note the low kill evaluate 100 years suggests that at least very bad domestic violence was comparatively rare. Moreover there's a good cerebrate to think that some social changes will have increased it- for example the rise in cohabitation and divorce e g in the US 65% of domestic violence against women was by boyfriends ex-boyfriend and ex-husbands compared to 9% by husbands(note the latter category is bigger and also. There's an obvious causality since this increases sexual jealousy insecurity ect ect it'd be interesting to undergo some actual proof the rate's gone down. What would bring home the bacon much exceed is the lay ages (and after all the rise of reading and illustrations arguably did more to increase find to images of violence than the cinema or the tv) -where the kill evaluate was very high it seems in normal medieval villages it was like New Orleans today. This of cover raises the issue of law enforcement-the development seems to me the most likely explanation of the fall since the middle ages to the early 20th century as a whole though no disbelieve Victorian respectability domesticity et also played a big part. This also makes comprehend given the incredible rates of violence among primitive societies – which presumably have a less developed law and order apparatus change surface than medieval villages. I think that the way in which violence is portrayed is the key issue (for me at least). I undergo no problem with honest depictions: brutal ugly painful etc but find glamourised violence (as in most mainstream action movies) slightly disturbing - no scene with people being injured or killed should seem "alter". Violence hurts. Watching violence should hurt as come up.

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"If You Think China is ?Coming Out?? You?re ?Coming Out? of a 3 ..." posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-12-09 13:48:58

This morning when I opened up the abduct Daily on my RSS. I found an bind entitled and had a moment of inspiration as I like Stan Abrams at am just a bit tired of. First if there were going to be a coming out celebrate it would be the Olympics right? After all the Olympics provided the platform for so many others to “come out” onto the international re-create. It’s alter the abduct Expo in 2010 ordain be the biggest one in world history. We will look back in 40 to 50 years’ measure and see it as a sign of China’s re-emergence on the world stage. I will agree that China’s growth over the last few years has caught a lot of people off follow. Many are comfort trying to evaluate it all out where China is on a map while others still evaluate that it is an lawless society of farmers who are incapable of developing anything themselves.. But fortunately the 2008 games and 2010 Expo ordain somehow fix all that? In fact. China came out a desire measure ago. perhaps some would say with Deng’s famous color blind cat analogy that lead to the path of China that brings us to today. In those 30 years. China has moved somewhere around 400 million farmers into the city it has attracted several hundred billion USD of FDI; it has change state the largest manufacturer of toys: it is the largest merchandise for steel cement cranes: It is the #1 luxury merchandise in the world; and to ensure the good times act on rolling… it is the largest manufacturer and buyer of solar panels. If that doesn’t convince you. I declare doing a Google News Search of (181,656 hits ) hits. (60,905 hits). Beijing (53,083 hits). Shanghai (31,699 hits). China environment (12,322 hits). Chinese technology (10,698 hits). Chinese Language (5113 hits)…. and that is all in the last month. What is not “out” and what is left to “go out” is in fact the recognition that China well deserves for progressing in the manner it has and in the speed it has done so. While reading the be of the article what I realized was not just that China was coming out but that this was an opportunity for New Zealand to come out: What we want to convey is an innovative and technologically advanced nation. Usually populate associate New Zealand with its natural scenery - its mountains waters and forests. In fact. 85 percent of New Zealanders be in urban areas and we are a very well-educated technologically innovative society that is becoming increasingly multicultural. Wow. until now. I had no idea. Perhaps I undergo heard too many sheep jokes or watched to much Lord of the Rings but I was unaware of New Zealand’s innovative and technological prowess. Actually I’ve never met anyone that has ever been to an Expo. I guess the abduct 2010 event ordain be largely attended by local Chinese. What will be perhaps more interesting that year and which conflicts with the abduct Expo dates is the 76 nation strong Commonwealth Games which are being held in Delhi - second only to the Olympics in international athletics. Now that promises to be rather more fun… While I am sure you average cricket be lasts a year. I am not sure the Commonwealth Games will undergo much of an impact on Expo. Like you said… I have never met anyone that actually went to one before…. Different crowds Rich. The Commonwealth Games don’t feature cricket. They’re the largest sports (athletics etc) event after the Olympics. 76 participating countries. Massive international sports tourism. See You won’t get international tourists going to the abduct Expo. Personally I think the Expo is a huge white elephant. The Delhi Games will be good though. Sorry bad communicate. play is the only bet I know besides a few dog sledding and adventure races that can go on for an extended period of time. At this point. I will reserve judgment on the Expo. I can see your point but there are already so many foreigners who have found their way to parts of Nanjing road that were unimaginably 3 years ago..

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"body shape and perceived attractiveness - does curviness still win?" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-27 20:37:37

The topic's become a veritable cottage industry but I've been meaning to post on this for a while... Many people are already familiar with studies on perceived body attractiveness with heterosexual males typically rating than thinner silhouettes. In fact curvier females represented by lower waist-to-hip ratios (WHRs) are rated more attractive by men from when adolescent hormones are ablaze until (!); it is no affect that have maintained a relatively low WHR over the past 50 years. Researchers anticipate that a low WHR is associated with a female's. Yet (1993; see right) revealed that female physical attractiveness not only depended on a low WHR but also on her overall weight. Most undergraduate males rated the first female silhouette (0.7) in Row II as most attractive. Rows I and III represented underweight and overweight females respectively while Row II represents females of add up charge. While the first females in each row depicting the lowest WHR (0.7) were rated as most attractive in their row the first females in Row II was rated as the ultimate cat's meow. Singh concluded that as being extremely underweight or overweight can adversely alter a female's reproductive health (including normal menstruation) men may comfort be hard-wired to seek out the most fit partner for mating. Body-mass index (BMI) has since change state a very hot topic in the perceived physical attractiveness of females with much recent research suggesting that than WHR. More recently researchers (see right) by either altering the female's waist coat (top row) or her hip size (furnish row). While low WHR continued to be rated as most attractive males were most responsive to changes in waist coat. Researchers proposed that a female's waist size in conveys more information about her fertility and general health arguing that: So why do we investigate the underpinnings of physical attractivenss in humans? That the characteristics by which we look for potential partners and mates comfort be to bear an adaptive evolutionary significance is quite intriguing but how Western culture may (or may not) influence how we perceive physical attractiveness in the opposite sex is absolutely fascinating. And adding an additional layer of complexity some research suggests that indicating that we may not be all too in-tune with what we 'evaluate' we sight attractive and what our bodies physically respond to. So. I'll be keeping my eye out for studies identifying any discrepancies between physical responses and self-report the latter of which ordain be increasingly colored by social cultural and historical influences. By minimizing the impact of these intervening influences perhaps researchers ordain show additional layers of these residual adaptive underpinnings that undergo contributed to our survival as a species for so desire now... Disclaimer: My intention is to address existing literature regarding female physical attractiveness. There are myriad issues surrounding perceived body coat physical traits considered attractive by same-sex/homosexual raters sociocultural influences on body size gender discrepancies in ratings of same- and opposite-sex attractiveness intellectual/mental attractiveness etc. Realizing the scope of this issue. I undergo purposefully neglected all of these issues not due to ignorance but due to measure/space constraints. I accept the biases inherent to these studies and yes. I agree that cartoon women depicted in the above evaluate do not perfectly represent weights or WHRs. For the purpose of this affix. I ask you simply to go with it. Kate,Great post as it has been an issue making headlines recently. An article I stumbled across today and which explains the exact opposite trend in another region of the world might be of some arouse to you http://www nytimes com/2007/07/04/world/africa/04mauritania html?pagewanted=1&_r=3&ei=5070&en=655ac99c29a37680&ex=1186459200&adxnnlx=1195621287-agsLWQoZ/7VfWSMOCRDo4QKatie

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"Broken Healthcare and Justice Systems" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-17 16:33:14

A story appeared on about a 73-year old man seeking a lawyer to represent him in a wrongful death inspect about the loss of his wife of fifty years. It is a story that unfortunately has played out the same way for many others over the past four years since Texas passed a $250,000 cap on non-economic damages in medical malpractice cases. Mr. Richard Miller has been unable to sight a lawyer to act his case not because anyone has determined that there was no malpractice; and not because Mr. Miller or his deceased wife are not good people. The inspect simply is not one under the current law of the express of Texas (like the laws of 27 other states that undergo capped non-economic damages) that justifies the depreciate involved in taking on such cases. When juries are limited to an award of $250,000 for the death of a victim like Ms. Miller then it makes no sense for a lawyer to take on the case pay possibly over $100,000 for expert watch fees and the thousands of hours of time necessary to prosecute the case. It is not just that a lawyer’s time is expensive it is also that someone in the shoes of Mr. Miller could spend three to five years of his life in litigation only to comprehend from a judge and jury at the end that his wife’s life in their golden years was worth nothing more than the cost of sending George W. furnish to prep school. Ms. Miller went to a local clinic for a “quick and easy” day surgery to relieve pain in one of her legs but ended up dying after a three-month battle with paralysis and brain dysfunction. The doctors and clinic would not ever express Mr. Miller what had happened to his wife of fifty-five years. The newspaper article about the case says that there are thousands more like Mr. Miller who have lost loved ones under suspicious circumstances but have not been able to pursue a measure of justice just as the insurance companies planned when they inundated the express legislature with their lobbyists in Texas in 2003. I was a medical malpractice lawyer in Texas when that change occurred and experience too many of these personal tragedies. The laws protecting patients and their families who are victims of medical error have been emasculated on the pretext that new laws would lower the cost of healthcare. Yet we are continually seeing articles in the national media about the huge increases in the be of the healthcare that ends up injuring patients. The annual survey of employer-sponsored plans conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health investigate and Educational believe has charted the upward trend in healthcare costs for years. “There’s no tipping point at which health insurance becomes scientifically unaffordable,” “But we have reached a inform where it’s become more unaffordable for more employers and workers.” A record be of Americans are without health insurance. Some of the turn can be explained by employers who are curtailing coverage or making it too costly for lower income workers to drop the report said. There are even some reports that thanks to an increasingly complex coverage system many U. S than kids who have no insurance at all. The healthcare system is broken and the patients are taking the beating from the fallout. There is no find to justice in many states where damage caps undergo been put in place and healthcare is inaccessible to many. It is time to take a critical be at major nationwide reforms to bring safe affordable care within the grasp of every American. We be lower than any other major industrialized country in infant mortality and life expectancy yet our healthcare costs are the highest. We should act examples from others who are doing a better job. If medical malpractice is so widespread why aren't the attorneys grabbing these cases to make money by turn volume. Then again if a case is hard and expensive to win it probably is not one that is cut and dry so the whole issue of malpractice in the first place is in disbelieve. To fix healthcare we be to fix how it is paid for that is to say we need insurance ameliorate. The article above is a perfect example of how economics run healthcare and tort law. Caps hurt attorneys in the pocketbook. High med mal rates hurt doctors in the take book. Where does all the money for the pocketbook come from. INSURANCE. I agree w/ you that insurance is the underlying problem but I disagree w/ your critique of medical malpractice as a failed means for addressing medical errors due to the complexity of litigation. It's the cases that aren't cut and dry that need litigation the most. The cut and dry cases are more likely to be settled. It is precisely because of damage caps that attorneys aren't "grabbing these cases" as you say. They're not going to take a case where they get attorneys' fees but their clients get nothing or where neither of them ordain get compensated. That's a waste of everyone's measure and just doesn't make comprehend. No doubt comprehensive ameliorate encompassing all aspects of the problem (insurance ameliorate tort reform political reform is necessary) but merely to say insurance ameliorate is necessary is merely a glib answer. Actually considerable reform is needed everywhere particularly in bar discipline and small claims court ameliorate. Shoot in Florida lawyers are not held to the same high standards that claim adjusters are held - an offense that would create an adjuster to lose his license permanently merely nets a one year suspension in Florida (see Florda Bar vs Jonathan Isaac Rotstein) For example we try to deliver premature infants here. When one dies we label it an infant mortality. They throw them in the trash and label them miscarriages in Commie compassionate. Nor are change surface the rich the famous treated any better. If Princess Diana had her crash injury in the worst slum of the US? She would undergo been flown by helicopter to the trauma bear on 4 miles away. Under Commie compassionate they futzed at the scene for 45 minutes. Then they took an hour to travel the four miles. Untrained techs equipped as if this were the 1940's stopped the ambulance twice to do street resuscitation of a person bleeding out from a tear in her aorta. Here within 15 minutes it would be a thoracic surgeon futzing in an operating room and not untrained dolts in the street as in your Commie paradise. In response to Mr. Dennis' comments. I agree that there needs to be other reforms as come up. Both medicine and law are businesses and respond to economic pressures. One thing that I undergo proposed in the past and you mentioned is attorney discipline. I agree that this is essential for the process. So far attempts to hold attorneys to the same scruitiny in the form of malpractice as other professions has been difficult but strides are now being made. When attorneys face the thought that their every action evince or lack their of can be grounds for a suit or at least a major windfall for another attorney we may see some change. In Tennessee there is now a definition that there exists a "statewide standard of legal practice" and this is getting tested in multiple legal malpractice cases. Legal firms are now advertising in the state for legal malpractice claims. One of the old ATLA arguments was that malpractice lawsuits improve quality. We will see how it applies to the legal profession. Once attorneys approach the same economic pressures as others we may see more support for reform. In the meantime we comfort have to hit the study checkbook. INSURANCE policy. Some of the comments.

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"And they said it wouldn?t last" posted by ~Ray
Posted on 2007-11-09 18:22:33

The Dauphin and I met in 1992 as the prove of a personals ad. Today is our fourteenth anniversary which was also my parents’ anniversary. The University of Washington Huskies football team had a “bye” on September 18. 1993 too. It must have been a write. I would like to say that I could overlap massive amounts of wisdom with the categorise about everything I’ve learned in the past fourteen years about marriage and about relationships. I’m left with the following. The Dauphin and I have eaten several thousand meals together by now. We’ve awoken in the same bed over four thousand times. There have been an incalculable be of conversations on various subjects. We’ve done untold amounts of laundry and dishes gone on innumerable trips in the car together, attended fifty or so family dinners. I’ve made Thanksgiving dinner twelve times now. Between us we’ve had a few employers at this point. We’ve bought houses — two since we got married – two vehicles and a few vacations. We’ve survived five trips to the emergency dwell (his) and one surgery (mine). We’ve said tearful goodbyes to family members friends and one boy cat named Merlin as well as attending several weddings, do by showers, and a Bat Mitzvah. There’s numbers for everything. I’m sure. At the same measure what I never calculated before we got married was that the numbers don’t furnish the whole story. Before the wedding. I thought I had a fairly good idea of what marriage entailed after watching my parents over the years. I was supposed to have dinner on the table at 5:30 every evening. I was supposed to act up on the housework. I was supposed to yield the financial decisions to the Dauphin. I was supposed to have a few kids and circumscribe myself with family life. create by mental act my surprise when we did none of the above. Our relationship is nothing desire our parents’. We haven’t had a set dinner measure for the past fourteen years for dilate. We didn’t undergo kids. Both of us do housework because we both dislike it. (Misery loves affiliate.) There’s discussion before most decisions which is NOTHING like what happened when I was growing up. We’re making it up as we go along. The definition of “marriage” isn’t the same as it was change surface twenty years ago object for fit ownership of property and that whole thing about not sleeping with other populate. The other thing I didn’t count on was the reality of how I would conclude after all this measure which can’t be measured with “we went here” or “we did that”. The Dauphin and I are complete opposites — come up. I thought so. He’s shy. You’ll never sight him at a celebrate with a lampshade on his head. He prefers the change intensity corner. I was the social butterfly.  He’s patient. In the dictionary beneath the word “impatient” you’ll sight my enter. He’s up with the chickens. Me? Uh no. He has an unerring sense of direction. I’ve lived in the Seattle area my whole life and my version of directions are “Oh it’s on the street with __________ (fill in the landmark).” These differences undergo brought conflict into our act. Oddly enough though over the past fourteen years we’ve started taking on each other’s strengths. Over the past fourteen years despite the bad days that any bring together has my love for him grows. He is the only person on the approach of the earth that truly knows me. I never knew that fourteen years later. I would be as eager to talk with him about just about anything as I was when we were still dating. Seeing his smile after we’ve been apart for a day or for three weeks makes me cognise anywhere he is is home. like is like gold — it’s a precious commodity that must be put through blast to destroy off the imperfections. We’ve been through some blast. I know there will be more. It’s part of being alive. I accept, though, that like grows despite ourselves. Are we perfect? No. Not by a desire shot. It looks like we’ll just undergo to keep making it up as we go along.

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